Zombie Fat?

[elroy]

Howdy,

I was wondering if animal fat could be added to the zombies loot table - it would make up for the lack of bears and piggies - oh, and if they could also give us a skull when we harvest them, that'd be ace too!?

[Lord McGuffin]

Unfortunately, zombies have a strict diet of brains, which contain no fat.

[Theodore Baggins]

Gotta fact check you there @Lord McGuffin, brains are nearly 60% fat (source)

Still, recent studies have shown that there is a higher correlation between sugar intake and personal fat storage, rather than fat consumption, itself. This coupled with the marathon-running ability of our zombies would indicate that our zeds would indeed have a very low fat content. 

Players, on the other hand, eat far too much chocolate and have shown an inclination towards a more sedentary lifestyle with the advent of cars, a variety of helicopters, boats, snowmobiles, and now teleportation instead of good ol-fashioned cardio. Gone are the days of taking on bears with our bare hands and barely surviving to tell the tale. Instead we sit and fish and set snap-traps. It's times like these that I think back and remember the good ol times... where we could stack fishing rods up to 50 and get milcrate loot and fish by just clicking periodically. Now that was exercise! 

[Lord McGuffin]

11 hours ago, Theodore Baggins said:

Gotta fact check you there @Lord McGuffin, brains are nearly 60% fat (source)

Still, recent studies have shown that there is a higher correlation between sugar intake and personal fat storage, rather than fat consumption, itself. This coupled with the marathon-running ability of our zombies would indicate that our zeds would indeed have a very low fat content. 

Players, on the other hand, eat far too much chocolate and have shown an inclination towards a more sedentary lifestyle with the advent of cars, a variety of helicopters, boats, snowmobiles, and now teleportation instead of good ol-fashioned cardio. Gone are the days of taking on bears with our bare hands and barely surviving to tell the tale. Instead we sit and fish and set snap-traps. It's times like these that I think back and remember the good ol times... where we could stack fishing rods up to 50 and get milcrate loot and fish by just clicking periodically. Now that was exercise! 

That's all well and good @Theodore Baggins, and I would agree with you. However, a 2017 study from The University of Texas at Austin showed that over 90% of zombies do NOT have the actual capacity to process fat from their eating of human brains. This is explained due to the fact that most zombies no longer have a "proper" digestive track that would allow the processing of fatty acids. The study took on 124 specimens, and amongst these only 9 had a digestive system somewhat capable of taking in fat. So that's nearly 93% without this ability. Furthermore, 7 of those 9 specimens were morbidly obese zombies, aka "Brutes". And as you may well know, they are no brutes on our lovely island (they just can't make the swim). 

So yes, brains do contain fat, but the friendly zombies on our roads, in our forests and on our beaches cannot absorb it.

Sorry @elroy.