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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realistically, there is still so much we don’t know about how the human body works. nothing is black and white. everybody has a different metabolism and lifestyle, the path you’re on now is how we get to people hating fat people.
every single aspect of the environment and our cells effects the way we process food, no two people are the same. throwing diseases into the mix can lead to an even more complex dynamic in the body. an example is that obesity is a cause of diabetes, but it is also a common symptom. logically that cannot be true, but realistically the human body is strange and processes things differently in every single person.
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