I understand food wasn’t always so abundant, and humans were well served to store excess consumed energy as fat for later use. What I don’t understand is why the body keeps storing fat to the point where a person becomes morbidly obese and it puts their entire health at risk. Why isn’t there a point where the body just let’s the extra calories pass through without saving for later?
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the body has homeostasis which adjusts all the systems to accomodate problems until a fatal meltdown, like a heart attack. The computer in your car does the same thing. Evolution in animals takes a very long time because a generation is so long. Plants have evolved to have lower and lower saturated fats. Palm oils are high in sat fat and have existed since just after the dinos, things like canola oil are low in sat fat and are much more modern. Plants have realized that fat saturation causes more plant damage (because it tastes good to the animals) so they evolved to not taste as good. Humanity evolution will slowly kill off the bodies that suffer most from obesity and leave the ones that tolerate it better.
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