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If your thyroid gland is damaged or not functioning properly, you will gain weight even if you eat your normal set of calories. You will also become lethargic and depressed. Let me see if I can't find some more for you. :) [[User:FlightlessOstrich|FlightlessOstrich]] 15:11, 15 March 2008 (EDT) | If your thyroid gland is damaged or not functioning properly, you will gain weight even if you eat your normal set of calories. You will also become lethargic and depressed. Let me see if I can't find some more for you. :) [[User:FlightlessOstrich|FlightlessOstrich]] 15:11, 15 March 2008 (EDT) | ||
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| + | I would argue that obesity is not an illness but a condition. There are no (well, okay, very few) "obesity" bugs flying around. You're not going to become obese by picking up some strange foreign infection. There are no "obesity vaccinations." [[User:FlightlessOstrich|FlightlessOstrich]] 15:12, 15 March 2008 (EDT) | ||
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Ok, I'm not an expert, but is there any other way to get obese other than overeating? HelpJazz 23:11, 22 February 2008 (EST)
If your thyroid gland is damaged or not functioning properly, you will gain weight even if you eat your normal set of calories. You will also become lethargic and depressed. Let me see if I can't find some more for you. :) FlightlessOstrich 15:11, 15 March 2008 (EDT)
I would argue that obesity is not an illness but a condition. There are no (well, okay, very few) "obesity" bugs flying around. You're not going to become obese by picking up some strange foreign infection. There are no "obesity vaccinations." FlightlessOstrich 15:12, 15 March 2008 (EDT)