Question

If you had less villi in your small intestine would you be overweight or underweight?

Answer 1

Overweight yeah yeah i just need 20 mor words or somethin like dat...

Answer 2

You would definitely underweight. The villi in your small intestines increase intestinal absorptive surface area approximately 30-fold and 600-fold respectively. This provides exceptionally efficient absorption of nutrients in the lumen. This increases the surface area for food to be absorbed. So if there were to be less villi you would underweight.