2006-07-07 17:25:18 · 4 answers · asked by Emily l 2 in Health ➔ Diet & Fitness
they probaly could if they ate alot when they were kids... but they did not ever quite eating....they might love to eat or eating help them feel better about there self......
2006-07-07 18:22:53 · answer #1 · answered by Jesse 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I am sure they can. I knew a lady that was well on her way. She claimed she was only 310 because that is what the scale at the Drs office went to. But you could tell she was much, much more. One day another friend of ours (who worked at a truck stop) weighed her while she walked across the scales and she actually weighed 698. She could only walk a few minutes at a time.
It was sad. But in her case was her own fault. She ate nothing but garbage and never did anything. Would lay and have her kids do everything for her.
2006-07-08 00:35:32 · answer #2 · answered by Jen 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In short, it's possible but rare. I've personally worked with clients who weighed in excess of 700 pounds.
The average human body contains (at a healthy weight) around 40 billion fat cells -- very obese people have around 100 billion and morbidly obese as many as 300 billion. We normally store around 150,000 calories in fat cells (we have enough fat cells to easily store a bit over 1,000,000 calories or 285 in pure fat). A 1000 pound person would need to store approximately 3.5 million calories in their body. This is possible because fat is stored in the body utilizing vastly lower amounts of energy than is needed to convert and store either protein or carbohydrates. Once fat is stored in specialized tissue the body produces 'safegaurds' to ensure that the fat isn't over utilized -- this is one of the reasons it's so hard for many people to lose vast amounts of actual fatty tissue in a short amount of time.
There you have it. Again, it's possible but you won't see it often. There are hugely complicated and multiple levels of systems of storage, safegaurds, conversion and utilization in the body. It's an incredible organic machine. Treat it well.
Lonnie Honeycutt, C.N.C.
http://www.betterlifetoday.com
2006-07-08 00:39:48 · answer #3 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no
2006-07-08 03:28:47 · answer #4 · answered by tampabayfriends 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋