# Do fat people's skeletons change?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-fat-peoples-skeletons-change/436061>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 3, 2008, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-fat-peoples-skeletons-change/436061 "2008-02-03T04:21:58Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
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**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\
**Post date:** [February 4, 2008, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-fat-peoples-skeletons-change/436061/21 "2008-02-04T21:42:44Z")

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I just reread the post I banged out earlier. As I re-read it, it sounds…defensive.

That was not my intent. My apologies if it came across as such to any esteemed doper.

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