Comment by mft_
5 hours ago
> Skinny people don’t even feel hunger.
I suspect it’s a touch more complex than that. :)
Anecdata: I have a 40-something friend who enjoys eating lots more than I do (and I witness this repeatedly: round after round of bread and chunks of cheese after a full meal, always happy to have desserts that I’ll sometimes forgo, etc.) and who stays slim. Sure, he exercises, but not so much more than I do to account for the calorie delta between us.
He’s just made differently, in a way we can’t currently explain. We sometimes joke about a faecal transplant.
I suspect a persons microbiome has a lot to do with how they process food.
Its strange to think what you want is a less efficient food processing engine. That society has so many calories to burn that we can reduce our ability to reduce caloric intake by 30%, but I would like that. And a fecal transplant might be a good start.