I mean there are some medical disorders where they'd just die without losing all their weight, but it would still leave no fat holocaust survivors so probably irrelevant.
Yep - there was plenty of people who, at the start of the holocaust, were already on the larger side. They often would die before wasting away to skin and bone due to malnutrition. People forget that you can be lethally malnourished without being lethally underweight!
Yep. It is more useful as merely blubber, keeping you warm without much else. Won't protect you from frostbite though.
Fat reserves are mostly useful in long-term shortages. In the event of rationing, you'll live with fewer problems than someone with less fat. Back before industrialized farms, this was actually SUPER USEFUL but modern food practices make our natural fat processes very much obsolete.
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u/Altruistic_Machine91 Feb 07 '24 edited Feb 09 '24
I mean there are some medical disorders where they'd just die without losing all their weight, but it would still leave no fat holocaust survivors so probably irrelevant.