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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Because things like sugar and salt and fat, things we need to live, were in short supply when we were but primitive monkey-men. So we were naturally inclined to seek them out whenever possible, and eat as much as possible because you never know when you’re getting another meal.
Nowadays it’s literally everywhere, so we consume too much of it, because our instincts still tell us to consume as much as possible. Our stupid monkey brains don’t know or care that we have farms and factories now.
Our bodies also want to hang on to fat as much as possible, because in the wilderness it comes in handy to store energy. That’s why losing weight is hard.
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