Eating anything you want

Trying to be fat:
[Via BBC News | Health | World Edition]

Why do some people never seem to put on weight?
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A nice little discussion of an experiment with people who are skinny and have a hard time putting on weight. Some interesting details and it was a small group. Increasing calories and decreasing exercise resulted in some weight increase but it was easily lost.

There was one intriguing person who gained over 10 pounds but whose metabolic rate increased 30%. Almost all the increased weight went to muscle, not fat.

As we are seeing, weight is a much more complicated thing than just eating.

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