Have you noticed though, speravi, that it's still a question of proportion? Not everyone was identically thin / emaciated in Belsen (look at the photographs). Please read sassy's comment above and learn a bit. By the way, under-eating can be equally 'self-indulgent' if you care to take such a view, but in fact people with anorexia sometimes have as little control over their body state as very overweight people. I hope you never experience either but I'd like you to understand more.