2006-06-30 21:49:04 · 13 answers · asked by tamjz 1 in Health ➔ Diet & Fitness
Not all overweight people overeat. Some people were small at one time and then when you don't pay attention to what you eat, the next thing that you know, instead of having 2 pieces of pizza, you eat 4. When you do that for every meal, the next thing you know is that you're eating 2-3X's the amount of food than you should. When you eat food, your stomach is a muscle and when you stretch it to be larger to accommodate all the extra food that you started giving your body, you have to eat more to fill the space and stop being hungry. It is the same idea about medicine. If you take 2 aspirin everyday, after a while, the 2 isn't going to work as well as it did before.
There could be a medical reason why they are gaining all the weight. Some chemical in the brain, has misfired and it makes the body think that they are hungry, so you eat, even if you aren't hungry or you've just eaten.
So don't look at all overweight people as "Big-Fat Pigs", something medically could be wrong. Just like someone who lost a limb. It can't be helped.
2006-06-30 22:02:07 · answer #1 · answered by brittme 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We presume that they overeat.
Actually the body`s gene is such that fat accumulates.
Next time notice how much you or a lean person eats, and how much a fat person eats. There will not be much difference.
2006-07-01 04:54:26 · answer #2 · answered by bharat b 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no hun...some ppl have thyroid problems, which prevent their body from acting normal as in metabolism etc....if some one has bad thyroids their body produces its own fat thinking its starving and is why as much as they skip meals and diet , it dosent make any difference and they put weight on or stay same... is not all true what society says about fat ppl...u see....big ppl have hearts too!
2006-07-01 04:57:25 · answer #3 · answered by angel_of_ur_heart35 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Some people who are fat have endocrine problems
2006-07-01 04:51:49 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
no,actually it is in their genes(the heredetary factors passed on by parents to their childern),or even the thyroid problem(a gland situated at the neck region) and even the low meatabolic rate(rate at which the body performs all the work) of the body.
2006-07-01 05:17:31 · answer #5 · answered by krishna 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not all of them. Some fat people under-diet...
2006-07-01 04:55:41 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
no everyone who is fat is not becoz of eating....
some have thyroid problems which makes them over weight
2006-07-01 04:55:03 · answer #7 · answered by crispey_honey 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
99.9% of the time, yes. Rarely are thyroid problems the sole reason.
2006-07-01 08:35:18 · answer #8 · answered by finaldx 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no my g-ma doesnt...she will order a lot and just take a couple of bites and then shes full!!
2006-07-01 04:55:40 · answer #9 · answered by sk8ers_rock94 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no they wont eat more
2006-07-01 04:53:32 · answer #10 · answered by king 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋