Psychohistorian comments on The Obesity Myth - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Psychohistorian 30 July 2009 10:31:18PM 2 points [-]

Obesity rarely occurs in nature because obese animals are targeted quickly by predators and quickly dispatched.

I would love to see evidence of this. I was under the impression that obesity is uncommon in the natural world because vast supplies of food are uncommon in the natural world.