Why is candy and chips, the sweets the salts and the fats, so tasty for humans compared to healthy snacks like a carrot? I mean why haven’t we created a healthy snack that everybody likes instead of injecting so much sugar in a simple oranje juice that is becomes kind of unhealthy? I am shocked by the duality of it all, something that tastes supernice is mostly superbad for our health 🙂 And i guess for animals it’s the same like you could feed any animal a bar of chocolate and he would eat it even if it probably poison him right? Is there a scientific explanation?
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When animals were evolving, it was quite difficult to get large volumes of fat, sugar and salt into your diet. Our bodies didn’t evolve a defense against overindulgence because access was scarce so over-eating wasn’t a problem we faced.
Our tastes evolved to encourage us to put in *extra* effort to get these types of foods because they’re really important for our development.
Now, we’ve made it possible to get as much fat, salt and sugar as you can eat. Our bodies only evolved to tell us to get more; they never evolved to tell us when we’ve had enough.
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