How can diseases cause obesity?

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I just watched an episode of House and he diagnosed a girl with Cushing’s – an illness that can cause obesity.

How is that possible? I was under the impression that our bodies use energy we get from food, and if it doesn’t get the food it’ll burn fat resulting in us getting slimmer – how can a disease change that?

How does it not go against some laws of thermodynamics? Maybe I’m just being silly.

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Steroids are horrible . I called my pharmacist bc I didn’t know wth was going on. After talking her head off for at least 30 minutes she told me I was having almost every side effect from them. My lungs got better but these days I think I’d rather just die (that was years ago)

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