Depending on efficacy, it may not be either/or. I’m sure that’s a relief.
Double my chances of never meeting a woman? How could I lose!
Abdominal muscles help you poop efficiently. Maybe that explains the position. Could come in handy with enough food technology.
However, it might be helpful for those with perpetual dry eyes (due to Sjögren’s syndrome) to have more lipid production from the meibomian glands, so that less artificial moisturizing is required.
I’ve never forgotten an article I read about how a woman using Olestra to aid her weight loss wore white pants and rose to learn to her immense horror and embarrassment that her backside looked like the tissue on the bottom of a pizza box. It was a description that… err… stuck with me.
I might be willing to tolerate a bit of greasiness in exchange for enhanced weight loss… but not that.
Other alternatives:
- Reducing caloric intake
- Living in a refrigerated environment
- Taking lots of mentally intensive tests
Get Grave’s Disease
Ulcerative colitis can result in significant weight loss too.
So can developing many types of cancer…
You bet! For most of human history, weight loss was NOT a good thing 99% of the time . . .
In fact, most people have only been weighing themselves for a century or two, excepting the occasional Italian physiologist. But now obesity levels are 60-80%. Many people worry about their weight, including men as well as women, and many worry almost all the time about it. It is a somewhat helpful metric, but not that much so, and not worth worrying about in the absence of action. Weighing once a week more than suffices.
My wife’s great grandmother (who lived in Germany through both world wars) would tell my wife “the skinny ones – they died first” when encouraging her to eat more.
I lost 100 and a couple odd pounds over 4 years of chemo and radiation [and about 20 pounds up and down, it was funky, I could weigh 200 one week, and the next week weigh in would be 190, then the week after that would be 205. It kept bouncing, and I was eating roughly the same calorie intake every day. Or I should say that input and output stayed pretty much the same all the time.] It took me time but I put the 100 pounds back on fast once my body mostly recovered from the chemo and radiation, and I am now very gently losing it again. I would like to be back down to 180 for about a year, then start losing it again down to 135ish.
Cancer Weightloss 0/5 stars, would not recommend!