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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Not sure if this is helpful, and it’s not a great analogy, but this makes me think of succulents. They have adapted to desert conditions and drought by storing water in their leaves and stems. But if you keep them as a houseplant and you water them too much, they will absorb so much water that their cells explode and die. Their survival instinct is to store water because, in their natural environment, water is scarce. But that instinct doesn’t go away even if it’s getting too much.
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