If most people in the developed world have excess fat storage, why do our bodies signal hunger after only a few hours after eating?

Question

If most people in the developed world have excess fat storage, why do our bodies signal hunger after only a few hours after eating?

In: Biology

Answer 1

>If most people in the developed world have excess fat storage, why do our bodies signal hunger after only a few hours after eating?

To get **more** surplus. In an environment where food is scarce eating and metabolizing everything that *can* be eaten increases evolutionary fitness, as the alterntive is to starve and not propagate your genes.