credoconsolans
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These fat acceptance people are basically arguing against the laws of thermodynamics. That fat on obese people is stored energy. Where is that energy coming from? If they are ingesting the same calories and exercising the same as thin people? If you can harness the source of that energy just popping into our universe we wouldn't even need cold fusion to solve the energy crisis.
The body reacts differently to different types of food, and so uses them to build and repair, and perhaps excrete any extras, or stores them as fat depending on what you eat.
See eg the experiment this guy did:
http://live.smashthefat.com/why-i-didnt-get-fat/
http://live.smashthefat.com/why-i-did-get-fat/
It's not that the laws of thermodynamics are wrong, or that "calories in minus calories out" does not apply; it's that the majority of the "calories out" side of the equation is not under your conscious control.
Basically. This is why men can eat more than women but still not gain weight. Why young people can eat more than normal and not gain any weight. Why older people gain weight eating the same food they did when they were younger and didn't.
Metabolism, age, gender and genetics all play into your weight.