In nature humans were generally half starved most of the time. So our bodies are designed to store any extra calories as fat. They do it very well. Too well when we have unlimited food available.
“In nature humans were generally half starved most of the time. So our bodies are designed to store any extra calories as fat. They do it very well. Too well when we have unlimited food available.”
In nature the food supplies were usually not overgenerous with carbohydrates the way they are superabundant in the current modern diets. This superabundance of carbohydrates in the diet has sent insulin levels through the metabolic roof to the point it causes very serious levels of metabolic syndrome. Such high levels of insulin block the hormones used to signal the metabolism to release fat from storage in the adipose tissues to burn as fuel, Ketones. Consequently, no matter how much a person with metabolic syndrome diets and exercises, the metabolism burns carbohydrates, stores extra carbohydrates as fat in the adipose tissues, or burns the protein in the muscles after converting them to glucose, while locking away the fats in the adipose tissues with fanatical determination to keep them from being used as fuel. The end result is a person with a huge or obese belly even while having stick thin legs, arms, and skeleton like the starving children in Africa. This is a very real metabolic disease which no amount of dieting of calories and exercise can fix. It can be fixed only by not going into a state of metabolic syndrome that prevents fats from being burned off of the body.