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Originally Posted by Makarov
Since this thread has degenerated back to mostly fat jokes, I thought that some may find this excerpt ( from a January 4, 2013, National Post article on Chief Spence's hunger strike) interesting:
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Ms. Spence’s condition may also be affected by the fact that she did not begin the strike on a lean frame. Not only does she have larger fat stores, but they may have slowed her weight loss in the strike’s opening days.
A 1998 study published in the British Medical Journal claimed that, in the first 60 hours of a hunger strike, “obese” subjects had lost 2.5% of their body weight, while “lean” subjects had dropped 3.9%.
Over two weeks, added the study, obese subjects had dropped only 9.3% of their initial body weight — just shy of the 10% threshold at which the researchers advocated beginning daily medical monitoring of the subject.
Sixty days is typically when hunger strikers see their health go into a tailspin. The body runs low on stores of fat for fuel, and begins to eat away at muscles and vital organs for energy.
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So lets say she started out weighing 200 lbs (which frankly I think is a conservative estimate)...
Using the percentages in your quote.. .After 60 hours (2.5 days) she should have lost 5 lbs and after 2 weeks she should have lost a total of 18.6 lbs.
Well, after
6 weeks she says she lost about 30 lbs. on her "hunger strike". That's only an additional 11.4 lbs over 4 weeks! I call bull####!