if our evolution led humans to crave calorie dense, fatty, sweet, and salty foods, why dont people find a stick of salted butter dipped in sugar to be delicious?
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If you don’t find that delicious, it’s probably a sign you got the ratio wrong. More sugar relative to the butter, maybe? Eating a mixture of sugar and butter is a lot more enjoyable than eating one ingredient on its own.
Our bodies aren’t stupid. They know that trying to live off nothing but salt is bad for us. Nothing but honey? Also bad. Nothing but fat? Bad. Those who didn’t understand that instinctively probably died out.
If you want to trick your body into enjoying large quantities of bad stuff, you need to mix it together in a way that makes it seem more palatable. Try one part sugar, two parts butter, three parts white flour, a pinch of salt. Mix, flatten, and bake into cookies. Now your body can’t tell that it’s dangerous. Not enough people in the past died of cookies to affect evolution.
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