The Biology Of A Superhuman Appetite....

[Spacescifi]

This should be an interesting scenario.

A scifi alien humanoid of average weight and size for a human will eat 300 pounds of food in a single sitting at breakfast, which will keep them feeling full until lunch.

300 pounds is more than people of average weight weigh.

If they eat lunch it will be about the same amount lest they start feeling hungry at dinner time.

For dinner they eat a bit less (100 pounds) and then go to bed feeling satisfied, so long they ate heavy with breakfast and lunch.

When they have to use the restroom they excrete normal human amounts of waste... which means most of the food they eat is being metabolized into energy.

If this is so for a person of average weight, how much stronger/faster would they be to a normal human?

It goes without saying they would starve to death much faster, and unless their blood was thick as glue it would also beat much faster I imagine.

Would their body become impractically hot metabolizing so much food into energy?

Thoughts?

EDIT: Assuming scifi aliens with high appetites like this existed, I imagine meal time would be taken far more seriously... meaning longer lunch periods, and little to no talking while workers chow down. I would expect most workplaces to have in house cafeterias to feed workers on site too. And since starvation is a very real possibity if one skips even a few days of eating, fasting would likely be seen as torture to them if not alien in concept altogether.

Thoughts?

Edited June 11, 2023 by Spacescifi

[NFUN]

49 minutes ago, Spacescifi said:

Would their body become impractically hot metabolizing so much food into energy?

Well we run at 100 degrees on 1% of that energy balance even ignoring their apparent ability convert matter into energy, so yes?

[kerbiloid]

2 hours ago, Spacescifi said:

A scifi alien humanoid of average weight and size for a human will eat 300 pounds of food in a single sitting at breakfast, which will keep them feeling full until lunch.

300 pounds is more than people of average weight weigh.

If they eat lunch it will be about the same amount lest they start feeling hungry at dinner time.

For dinner they eat a bit less (100 pounds) and then go to bed feeling satisfied, so long they ate heavy with breakfast and lunch.

When they have to use the restroom they excrete normal human amounts of waste... which means most of the food they eat is being metabolized into energy.

As the total mass isn't changed in chemical reactions, so either the first fart will blow up the building, or the first rest will break the seat, the pipe, and the sewers.