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smartalecc5
02-15-2005, 09:16 PM
I was reading Night by Elie Weisel - which deals with his survival of the holocaust - and my mind working in weird ways thought about this...

Who would survive the longest given an incredibly meager supply of food (a few pieces of bread a day)

Option A: A fat/portly man because his body can use his stored fat for energy.

Option B: A hardworking person who is very skinny, but generally is used to not eating much.

What are your opinons?

gaming_mouse
02-15-2005, 09:42 PM
the fat guy, i'd think.

slickpoppa
02-15-2005, 09:49 PM
unless the hardowrking guy is finding some way to get more food, the fat guy will defintitely last longer. if anything, the fact that the guy is skinny might mean that he has a faster metabolism and actually burns calories faster.