I mean shouldn’t the extremes of both end be equally harming to a person? why do skinny/underweight people and fat/overweight people not have the the same amount of health issues?
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Fat cells around your body is very important to the delivery of nutrients and serves as temporary storage for things like iron and hormones, regulating release of those throughout your body. Certain fat cells are responsible for creating some heat around your body as well.
Having too much fat also means having inflamed fat cells that can’t regulate proper distribution of needed nutrients or might start behaving in a hoarding fashion.
Think of it as a fat cell being a house. If you start putting more things in the house that is coming out, soon it is impossible to navigate in it and than at that point, you could empty the house (lose weight) or build a second garage, a shed, a third floor, etc. (gain weight)
If you start taking out things from the house that is necessary to live like electricity, running water, etc. (being too skinny) your house becomes unable to operate and unable to deliver more nutrients outs.
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