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.
In: Biology
It cant.
It can make you hungrier. You eat more. You gain weight but there is no disease, pathogen, parasite … nor anything in the observable universe that can create and store fat from nothing.
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