>>12601507Genetics and other things that affect salt loss, like the local climate or the use of air conditioning. Northern china suffers significantly more obesity than the south.
>>12601678No, all warm blooded animals have brown fat. (people behave like a cold blooded species, despite being technicly warm blooded; but you stop noticing the cold when you stop eating salt)
>>12601697You won't see it in statistics, because it's assumed that a fat man didn't starve and another reason is noted as the cause. (heart failure, etc. )
>>12602364It is the only tissue with a lot of fat in animals that don't consume salt.