my characters wish that they are overfed and chubby... I ususally end up being too thin, because I can't find enough high-calorie food sources...
My run yesterday actually ended with my character dying from starvation in the desert and that was the most successful run I had so far.
However I did watch other people play the game now and it seems that I've been mostly unlucky with loot. Also people do sometimes eat the flesh of corpses and I've not seen that have a bad effect, yet.
cuz it's giving mental effect. Meat is meat, but where is came from is important. It can hit pretty hard if you not try balance it.
Plus mental is pretty important. Low mental, gives status. So far I get to see one stage of that (around -30.0) that sometimes refuses do a pick up action. I heard that if is pretty low might even hurt themselves or even trying to suicide. (If you have gun, might it use for suicide. Is from newest update as far I read and heard.)
And adding to chubby, is negative status. Lower stamina and jump. (Idk exactly what means, I have only one run that i managed get that status.)
To saying, I get desert two times. One by drill (died from overheat), and second what I prefer call it "natural" (this was death by landmines, two of them for being specific. Sneaky little bastards.)
Both wasn't best runs, but i managed get pretty low.