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[HydrogenBond]

A less efficient digestive system could lead to less nutritional value from food, but a simple multiple vitamin suppliment would solve that. Extra weight is not stored nutritional value, but energy value.

The energy value of being overweight raises an interesting consideration. Under conditions of famine an efficient digestive system and plenty of extra weight would give one selective advantage. This would suggest another aspect of obesity, i.e., body is sensing famine, in a time of plentiful food. This situation is similar to a bear that gouges during time of abundance so it has food reserves for hybernation (state of famine).

Often the unconscious mind works in symbols, with the famine meaning something figuratively the same. The symbol comes to the surface as one thing, but is really referring to something analogous in the environment.

The orginal question of why we are getting fat, may symbolize the affects of modern culture of people. Society is fairly shallow with superfiscial trimmings more important than inner worth like character. If knowledge was food, the superfiscial trimmings are essentially fast food or junk food. It is all prepared for us for quick eating, the goal of which is ego-inflation.

We are in an information age. But information is data. Data is useless unless it is processed further into useful correlations. Culture appears to be generating so much data, that it can only massage the data fast food style. Part of the fast food appeal is the entertainment factor. The food is prepared as much to entertain us as it is to inform us. It is not natural food but processed food. People may be sensing a famine of good thought food. This is becoming conscious by gaining weight, which is a symbol in anticipation of a intellectual hybernation approaching. Or normal mental activity to process one's metal food is being replaced by prepared food with too much sugar (entertainment) and fat (fluffy data).

Most of the fat is coming from statistical studies. Although statisticc has value in science, in the social arena it often leads to useless results. A good example are polls. They rarely reflect the reality but can be manipulated to get the result someone wants. That makes good entertainment, i.e, fat and sugar.