A woman who eats every 15 minutes to stay alive!!!
Lizzie Velasquez is a 21-year-old college student in Austin, Texas who has a problem that many weight-conscious women would envy. Due to a rare and undiagnosed disease, Velasquez can not gain weight. In fact, she has to eat every 15 minutes in order to stay alive.
Velasquez wears triple-zero sized clothing, and has almost zero percent body fat. She eats 60 small meals a day and almost never gains weight. Consuming between 5,000 and 8,000 calories daily, the communications student has never tipped over 59 pounds.
Abhimanyu Garg MD, at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas believes Lizzie may have a form of Neonatal Progeroid Syndrome (NPS), which causes accelerated aging, fat loss from the face and body, and tissue degeneration. People with PRS often have triangular and prematurely aged faces with a pointy nose.
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