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Why do we get fat?
- RichardHeart 10y agoI thought this was common knowledge. The desire to eat has been around for many thousands of years, and for the vast majority of that time it's been much safer to have extra fat on your body, than risk dying in a time when food was more scarce. Since technology allowed food to become available and calorie dense at a rate that evolution couldn't keep up with, people trend into being fatter. The process whereby fat people die earlier now is evolution selecting people who have a better emotional attunement with the abundance of food that we have now. It's similar how to without self driving cars, a few thousand years from now, there'd be more people who were fearful of cars, because the selection pressure of automotive deaths over time influences survival and replication. Typed as I pedal on a bike for my 3750th mile in 150 days. I'd like to see what a beach body feels like :)