eli5: Why will the body continue to store excess fat to the point where it jeopardizes the person’s health?

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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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Because our body expects our brain to say “Hey stupid, eat less food.”

On a more serious note, if we are moving as much as we are designed to do it is almost impossible to gain much fat. You need to understand our body is not designed to be sitting around all day. We are designed to be in constant motion while we are awake. We can run for ridiculous distances, we can train our bodies to do incredible things and produce quite a bit of strength. But the one thing we are not designed to deal with is sitting around on our ass eating an over abundance of food.

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