If fat is stores of energy, then why aren’t fat people more energetic than skinny people?

Question

If fat is stores of energy, then why aren’t fat people more energetic than skinny people?

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Answer 1

Think of being fat like carrying around a backpack full of cans of food. In case of emergency, you can open the backpack, and take out a can, and use that to eat. But in the mean time, you have a heavy backpack that you have to take with you everywhere, and it weighs you down.