Do obese persons have more or less difficulties than the slimmer ones when they no longer can consume food normally? I know some skinny people who seem to be eating constantly - are their digestions ineffcient?
Plus - should I eat cold rather than hot food if wanted to lose weight?
Fatman eats skinny lady.
There are several threads here that already discuss this (or similar enough) so you might want to peruse them. (Were I to guess though, I’d say it might be similar as the ratio of energy needed [to keep one alive] is proportional to weight - but there are other factors to consider: general health condition, activity level, genetic predisposition, who-knows what else I’m missing)
… And though it is a bit more complicated, usually a “fast metabolism” really means a “less efficient” metabolism in the sense of not utilizing all of the energy available in a particular food.
As to food temperature, there really is no evidence to suggest this matters much. Your body will balance out to hot/cold with little enough energy to make little (if any) difference.
I’m not sure I understand how the subject question relates to your post. But a fat person will survive without food longer than a skinny person (for average values of fat and skinny).
Generally a person with a higher percentage of body fat will survive without food longer, although I don’t know if muscle mass is just as valuable for the purpose. That is, if I have a competitive bodybuilder with 3% body fat vs. a pudgy couch potato with the same height and weight but 30% body fat, I’m not sure who will last longer.
For the issue of cold vs. hot, there is not enough of a difference to matter.
Well, this seems like the most likely result - but it would be much more efficient for the skinny lady to eat the fat man.
♫ She ain’t heavy… She’s my dinner…♫
Calorie-wise it probably doesn’t matter; but individually it might: some people feel more full after a warm meal than after a cold one. So if you eat a hot potato soup and one cheese sandwich vs. four cold cheese sandwiches, you might eat less calories but feel just as full.
This would help you individually to loose weight.
Also, in winter most people prefer warm food while in summer, people eat more salads, yogurts and sandwiches. (Which is what doctors over here recommend: light food to not stress the body with a lot of digestion work, so not fat pig legs in summer at noon; a warm soup in winter to make you feel warmer).
The one with the strongest will. If the wills were equal the skinny lady just bescause her metabolism is higher and she has less ‘food’ reserves to break down. (fat)
I don’t know all the factors involved in starvation, but simply talking about calories stored fat represents a higher energy store (by weight, don’t know about per volume) than muscle* due to fat containing 9 calories per gram versus protein’s 4 calories per gram. Going for a 2,000 calorie goal fat can meet it in ~222 grams versus 500 grams for protein.
*I realize that muscle isn’t 100% protein
Yum, skinny lady with a side of fries!
That is sick and wrong!!
And funny and I’m going to hell for laughing at it and you win the thread.
That’s already been shown on Survivor. First season they cast normal people with some extra weight. They lost weight during the show but, not to starvation.
Second season they cast these fit health nuts that exercised all the time. Many had almost zero body fat. A sexy cast that was perfect for ratings. They wasted away to nothing during the season. The “winner” Tina Wesson looked like a concentration camp victim. Very dangerous because she had lost a lot of weight from muscle. I thought she was in some danger from starvation.
That’s why historically people tried to gain a little weight when the harvests were good. That meant the difference in surviving a famine when the harvest failed.