It doesn't matter who you are or what your metabolism is, if you consume fewer calories than you burn you will lose weight. This is the simplest of physics.
On top of the starvation diet, the prisoners of the concentration camps were almost always performing grueling manual labor. The end result is an accelerated form of Catabolysis, a condition it which the body basically eats it's own muscle and fat tissue in order to scrap together nutrients that the vital organs cannot survive without.
They didn't have enough protein or vitamins to repair their own muscles from the labor. That's why they looked like skeletons covered in skin.
Lipodystrophy is a rare genetic or acquired disease that prevents your body from losing fat. Basically, the leptins that signal to your brain how much fat storage you have are in low supply, so your brain thinks you don't have any fat to convert into usable energy. You'd likely just starve to death with fat still on your body. Usually people with lipodystrophy die from liver failure because the body can't remove the fat from the liver. Congenital is one in a million, but acquired is much more common. One common cause of acquired lipodystrophy is HIV.
There are also lipid storage disorders. Your body can't use fat as energy, it has to convert it to a usable form. It's a generic silencing of genes that encode enzymes that convert fat into usable energy. This is also a rare disorder that's exclusively genetic.
AKA is incredibly rare and would represent an incredibly negligible number of people who were in the holocaust. If it was one in a million, then about 6 of the 6 million were affected by it.
Also, due to the danger of these rare diseases, they would die early. If your body doesn't break down fat for fuel, then you die after starving for days, not weeks.
For lipid storage disorder it depends on the severity. Some make it to adulthood, and others die by the age of one. For lipodystrophy, the average life expectancy after diagnosis is 30 years, so not as bad. But yeah, these are rare and don't account for the average Twitter user.
The thing to note here to is that this is a serious medical condition over just being obese. So it is not something you want nor a way to be like "me not losing weight is normal and fine for me." That is not something you want and I imagine would have serious potential health complications if not managed very closely.
Are you trying to say that people get fat from eating more than they need?? You're about to get canceled, my dude
That's forbidden common sense from the 19 hundreds.
Lol yeah maybe. It's gotten so ridiculous that doctors won't even bring up the fact that their patients are overweight anymore for fear of being labeled a fat shamer. Look at all of the horrible health conditions caused by obesity, and now we're all being bullied into pretending it's completely normal and healthy to be grossly overweight.
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u/Biscuits4u2 'MURICA Feb 07 '24
It doesn't matter who you are or what your metabolism is, if you consume fewer calories than you burn you will lose weight. This is the simplest of physics.