• Question: How is a person fat when they dont even eat much?

    Asked by emmagrace to Dalya, Derek, Sarah, Tim, Tom on 21 Jun 2011.
    • Photo: Tim Millar

      Tim Millar answered on 20 Jun 2011:

      Weight can be gained depending on the amount of calories in a food. For example, you can eat as much lettuice as you can stand and would loose weight but only small amounts of fat like butter and put it on. Some people also use the energy from food so that it is not stored as fat within the body. There is some genetics life style mix that can control the soeed with which me metabolise food. Slow metabolisers are more likely to gain weight as fat compared to fast metabolisers

    • Photo: Sarah Thomas

      Sarah Thomas answered on 20 Jun 2011:

      Being overweight is not just caused by food intake, it can also be caused by a genetic predisposition, a lack of exercise, medication and other illnesses.

    • Photo: Derek McKay-Bukowski

      Derek McKay-Bukowski answered on 20 Jun 2011:

      Indeed, sometimes the little foods are the most fattening. A little bit of chocolate or butter or sugar contains a lot more energy or fat than fruit.

      People also process that food differently. Some are more prone to storing it as fat than others.

      Also, much of it comes down to exercise too. Even things like the difference between walking to school or going by car, can make a big difference the the amount of fat you burn off.

    • Photo: Tom Crick

      Tom Crick answered on 21 Jun 2011:

      Hi Emma, take a look at the answers to this similar question.

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