Should the NHS pay for the consequences of you eating pie?

[TimberWolf]

I would like to know how long a grossly obese person could live without food. Water allowed. Is it months?

[TheBigYinJames]

I would like to know how long a grossly obese person could live without food. Water allowed. Is it months?

A lot longer than a skinnie. If civilization collpases, they will eat you once you get too weak to run away.

[Bagpuss]

When I was fat, my quack advised me not to have milk in my tea. Thanks doc.

Seriously if you give up red meat and limit potatos and bread for a while the weight falls off.

[RichardCranium]

I would like to know how long a grossly obese person could live without food. Water allowed. Is it months?

This isn't the answer to your question, but given the rate you burn calories when asleep, and the calorific density of fat, the Sleeping Beauty would have had to be just over 1 tonne when she went to sleep.

(I worked that out 30 years ago when my Biology homework and Physics homework coincided with a useful synergy.)

[TheBigYinJames]

Seriously if you give up red meat and limit potatos and bread for a while the weight falls off.

i was on a 'nothing white' diet for a while, lost about 3 stone. So you can eat wholemeal bread but not white, no potatoes, white rice, bananas, etc.

[ratewhore]

Smoking suppresses the appetite so give all the lardies fags...

[Cliphead]

I was gettin goff the train in London the other day when I saw the oddest thing. A woman incredibly fat on the bottom half but only plump at the top. Must have been a 16 at the top and 20 plus at the bottom. You see quite a lot a fatties these days but that was odd. If you don't have a medical condition is there really any excuse?

I see a lot of people shaped like this in the US and more commonly here. No idea why that is.

[Bagpuss]

I see a lot of people shaped like this in the US and more commonly here. No idea why that is.

It's like something out of Dr Who, soon the bottom half will become a useless blob of fat and grissle

[expat]

I think the problem is that it's not just one thing. For me it was just sitting about in front of PCs all day not eating the right thing, take this example:

If you eat 100kcal a day more than you burn (i.e. a bag of Quavers)

- that's 700kcals a week
- that's 3500kcals a month, which equals 1lb of fat
- that's 12 lbs weight gain a year
- over 10 years that's 8.5 stone

So you don't have to 'overeat' to get fat, you just have to do it a little bit over a long time. So watch out all you 20-something desk jockeys.... When i was 18 years old I was 12.5 stone. By the time I was 35 I was 21.5 stone.

Luckily I put in the work, and I'm back down in the teens again.

I'm impressed! Oh, you mean teens of stones weight.

If you're steady at 21.5 stone, can you get to 12.5 stone by just eating 1 bag of quavers less a day? I doubt it.

[RichardCranium]

I see a lot of people shaped like this in the US and more commonly here. No idea why that is.

Growth hormones in the beef. Accounts for the big square jaw too.