ext_18446 ([identity profile] mediumajaxwench.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] lexin 2009-06-04 02:10 am (UTC)

It's much harder for fat people to lose weight than it is for thin people.

The reverse is also true. In the fifties the US army did some studies trying to get soldiers to gain weight and the men were consuming somewhere around 10,000 calories a day (iirc) before they started gaining more than about 20 pounds. Up to that point their metabolism just compensated for the extra food.

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