- In 1967 American Scientists at the Vermont State Prison
carried out an experiment by medical researcher Ethan Sims who
wanted to study the hormonal changes in the human body when it
becomes seriously overweight. Each inmate was fed as much food
as they could physically handle and their exercise was
restricted. However, regardless of how much they ate, none of
the prisoners (all naturally slim) could not become obese. One
ate as much as 10,000 calories a day and still did not become
obese. None of them even went outside a normal body weight
although each responded differently.*1 - Brittish scientists
attempted to recreate the above experiment in 2009 in which they
took a group of slim people and fed themas much food as they
could handle and restricted their daily movement to less than
5,000 steps a day (about 2 miles). They were not allowed any non
walking physical exercise that might skew the results. As above,
the patients bodies gained different amounts, but none of them
gained enough to even make them ov