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If either of these girls had been born even 5 years earlier they never would have hit their 30s. I'm still not convinced they'll actually live through their 30s, but still, the fact that they've made it this far is unprecedented in human history.
I don't mean to be a dick, but to call surviving long periods of near starvation "unprecedented in human history" is absolutely absurd. We evolved to be really, really good at conserving energy and our metabolism will adapt to use every available fuel source to survive when caloric intake is insufficient. Right up to the end of the 20th century (and probably still today, in some places) famine has always been fairly frequent throughout the course of human history - and yes, at times a lot of people die, but the majority do not. The ones who die off are usually children and the elderly, and most of the deaths aren't from starvation per se, but rapid spread of disease (typhus, dysentery, influenza) that will be more dangerous to starved people prone to dehydration, and with compromised immune systems due to poor nutrition.
Eugenia isn't one skelly among a million in the middle of the Sudan or some shit like that, she is among a generally healthy population with modern sanitation and, as you are correct in pointing out, has access to vitamins, clean water, high-quality nutrient dense food (when she does eat it), and all the health food store bullshit money can buy in current year. I kinda doubt she is on any prescription medication, usually anachans avoid regular doctors' visits as much as possible, but she could take all kinds of OTC crap. If she ever did happen to get norovirus or something that could very well threaten her life, she'd probably go to the ER and spend a few days being hooked up to a glucose drip, given electrolytes and fluids, and stabilised, then discharged with a referral to some ED program she'd rip up and it'd be back to business as usual.
So yeah, actually I agree with 90% of your post and you're absolutely correct, I just felt the need to be an autistic cunt and nitpick the one statement I quoted. We really just lucked out to exist at a time and place where we can all eat like fucking kings for practically nothing, to the point where the sight of a skelly is so rare that it is viscerally disturbing. The downside is the existence of deathfats doing mukbangs.