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The problem, is it is so good at storing, and in our modern society we don't have the lean times, so it just keeps storing every spare calorie untill it crushes the life's breath out of you quite literally unles you burn it off in some way It's why "Fasting is good" but "Starvation is bad" because when that fat is gone, your muscles and intetnal organs are in next layers down on the list of "Energy stores" your body will use.

So nature "Knows" there is an optimum for a reserve in each storage system and it works out to a little over 1/3rd of total capacity ~36.788% of the system over 'a given period of time'.

Move either way from that point and you reduce the ressilience of the system in a "Random environment" that has a flat, normal or other balanced distribution of fat and lean periods over 'a given period of time'.

So your "Storage capacity" is actually based on "Time" and "Through put" thus reducing through put can buy you more time upto a point then you need to switch to alternative modes of operation.

If you work out your normal system throughput over a given "Period of time" you then provide storage capacity of twice that and keep it half full, so 1/3rd throughput, 1/3rd in store for lean times and 1/3rd spare capacity for fat times.

The real question though is "What period of time" to use and that's a much more interesting set of questions and equations but ~2 times the average lean/fat times usually works as a starting point for any system that can switch from one operational or storage mode to another operational or storage mode for similar basic reasoning.

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