# Tissue Organ Size and Weight
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tissue-organ-size-and-weight/177948
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [May 28, 2003, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tissue-organ-size-and-weight/177948 "2003-05-28T04:16:13Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@SandWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SandWriter)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2003, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tissue-organ-size-and-weight/177948/1 "2003-05-28T04:16:13Z")
Hey All,
I’ve bitten the bullet and started counting calories and working out at the gym at lunch. Over the last six months I’ve gone from 300 to 260, 26% body fat to 21%, and 46 inch waist to 42 inches. I still have a long way to go, but I was curious about organ tissue sizes and such.
Do big people have big organs, bigger than non-overweight people? I see some skinny people and I think, man, they must have the cutest little kidney’s or how did they fit 32 feet of intestines in there?
What’s the skinny?
-Sandwriter
---
### Author:  [@Rabid\_Squirrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rabid_Squirrel)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2003, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tissue-organ-size-and-weight/177948/2 "2003-05-28T04:45:21Z")
Well, WAG, but things like the stomach and intestines can grow to acommedate larger eating habits. Overweight people can also have larger hearts, but that’s not a good thing.
Other than that, all the rest should be the same as the cliched skinny person waiting to get out.