If the brain recognizes that we are not active and is storing tons of excess fat, why won’t it start to expel it if it’s causing health issues? I feel like the brain should understand that humans shouldn’t be 600 lbs and it should realize that it doesn’t need to store all of that potential energy
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Our brains don’t really understand that though. We’re still stuck in caveman mode, when storing extra fat was crucial to survival, and pretty much no one could die of morbid obesity, because finding excess food was rare. The problem is that from an evolutionary standpoint, it’s been only VERY recently that obesity has become a greater problem than starvation for many humans, so evolution hasn’t really been able to adjust yet, and won’t likely be able to do so for many years.
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