If fat is just extra stored "food" then why does it lack some of the other elements that food contains (i.e. v

when the body recieves more food than it needs, the excess food becomes stored as fat. That being said, if the extra food itself becomes stored as fat then it seems like the vitamins, e.t.c. that were in the extra food would also be stored along with the fat. So how is the "food" able to be stored(as fat), yet not contain all of the nutrients that with it originally? If it can be stored then surely it can also retain the nutrients that it originally encomped. Otherwise it is pretty much useless as a form of energy other than being used merely to survive during periods of extreme famine (because even if you have a lot of fat you will still feel hungry any time you do not eat. You would be more likely to survive without eating (as long as you drank water) but you would still feel miserable and hungry.