Cal88 said:bear2034 said:Cal88 said:bear2034 said:Cal88 said:bear2034 said:Cal88 said:bear2034 said:
These are pictures of children with other health issues.
Starvation is indeed a health issue.
These health issues are genetic disorders due to increased homozygosity, where offspring inherit identical copies of recessive alleles from both parents. In other words, incest.
Yeah sure, and the fact that nearly all food aid to the 2 million people living in Gaza has been suspended for several months now has nothing to do with people there starving, it's all about "increased homozygosity".
I'm not denying there are food issues in Gaza. But when you see pictures of emaciated kids like the ones you posted with parents who look much healthier, it makes you wonder if what's being reported is actually propaganda instead.
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How much weight can an obese person lose in 3 months?
A safe, healthy, and realistic goal is to lose 0.5-to-1% of your body weight per week, which is around 1-to-2 pounds of weight loss per week for most people. In other words, you can expect to lose 12-to-24 pounds in a 3-month period.
An obese or overweight mother will not look emaciated after a 2-3 month of near starvation, but a baby will.
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What is the incest rate in Gaza?
Data on incest rates in Gaza is limited and often conflated with consanguineous marriages, which are culturally distinct. Consanguineous marriages, particularly first- and second-cousin unions, are common in Gaza, with studies estimating rates around 39.9% in recent generations, down from 45.2% in previous ones. These marriages, increase risks of genetic disorders like -thalassemia, a genetic blood disorder caused by mutations in the HBB gene, leading to reduced or absent production of the -globin chain of hemoglobin. This results in ineffective red blood cell production, causing anemia and related complications. The severity depends on whether a person has -thalassemia minor, intermedia, or major.
So the kids in Gaza are starving because of 39% cousin marriages, not because food distribution has been deliberately cut off for months...
No, pictures of an emaciated child like the one the Financial Times published in one of the stories above is most likely due to genetic disorders and not starvation. You seldom see multiple emaciated children in the same picture, let alone, emaciated adults, which is what you would expect if there was famine.
