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Re:Over 73% of U.S. Adults Overweight or Obese by boxmonster on Sunday January 10, 2021 @04:16PM (#25719969)
It took me seconds to find credible information arguing against your assertion: "Using the model, we found that fatter individuals would indeed survive longer and, at a given body weight, females would survive longer than males, when totally starved"

A mathematical model of weight loss under total starvation: evidence against the thrifty-gene hypothesis

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3529354/

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Re:Over 73% of U.S. Adults Overweight or Obese by mytailorisrich on Sunday January 10, 2021 @04:38PM (#25720203)
Well, considering that converting food into fat is a way to store and 'save' for later, that's not surprising, indeed.

Arguably, if that made no difference to survival our body would have evolved away from even storing fat long before modern times.

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Re:Over 73% of U.S. Adults Overweight or Obese by greatgirl on Sunday January 10, 2021 @04:40PM (#25720232)
This isn't even arguing with what I said. I said at the point of starvation, being obese is only going to let you live for a few more days longer than a skinny person assuming you dont get any more food until death.

This paper is arguing that they are more likely to survive in general, which is obvious.

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