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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It’s just not a problem evolution has ever had to solve. Things just don’t “overachieve” that much in nature, so our bodies never developed a mechanism to pump the brakes once we reached the obesity threshold.
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