If a regular weight person and an obese person were left on a desert island with no food, would the obese person live a lot longer bc they have stored up energy as fat? Or does it not work like that?

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If a regular weight person and an obese person were left on a desert island with no food, would the obese person live a lot longer bc they have stored up energy as fat? Or does it not work like that?

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Answer 1

Yes. When asking a question like this, always ask the question in the case of absolute extremes. If someone who was 400 pounds and someone who was anorexic were both on an island, who’d starve first? The person with no stored energy and is functionally starving already.