How can the human body process such huge quantities of calories? Like, if I normally eat 2,200 calories a day and one day decide to eat 20,000 calories how could my body not be overloaded and let most of those calories get pooped out?
I think it would make sense if I slowly increased it or increased it for a long time, but if I went out tomorrow and slammed 15 candy bars and 5 burgers how could my body be like, “okay, 20k calories coming right up”?
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We evolved through times when meals were sometimes not that easy to come by, so when a large animal was killed we had the adaptations to eat as much of it as we could because it might be a substantial time before the next one.
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