No, just my ridiculous imagination run amuck. Dad was a ChemE PhD, but I only learned enuf to be humorous.  I really was only vaguely aware of this whole fatsickness worship culture, before signing up here.  Maybe inspiration for post was the "Real Life Barbie," tiny Russian model Valeria Lukyanova, who claims to subsist on merely air and water. Bizarre story with Ruskie celeb propaganda, in and of itself bizarre, but very diff pathology from fatness.