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Consider that the need for extra fat storage may often be seasonally based. Our bodies could sense upcomnig times of scarcity based on temperature, sunlight, and the types of food available (different fruits or vegetables ripe, etc.) All of these cues are of course scrambled to various extents in our (understandable) drive for optimal comfort at any time.
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obesity air conditioning]Google for sauna for obesity while you're at it. And sauna belt, if you want to go real extreme.
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thanks[it isn't necessary to escape brackets]Air Conditioning causes Obesity
I'm not sure whether that is a reductio ad absurdium refutation or support.
Those are good points, and I think there probably has been a conscious component in such behaviour too in later ancestors, and these same cues might affect hunger just as well as metabolism.