Why do we as humans enjoy unhealthy food more than healthy food?
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Evolution takes a long time. So our bodies are still built to be really really good at staying alive the way the very first humans had to. Which means that enjoying things high in sugar and fat meant enjoying healthy fruits and eating high calorie meats.
If a human in that condition bulked up it would likely get burnt off from the constant activity needed to survive so the human liking that thing was better for them surviving.
Modern unhealthy food sort of takes advantage of those old instincts and abuses them, our bodies haven’t evolved for a concept like “too much sugar” so when we taste sugar our bodies sends good signals so we want more foods like that to get more good signals.
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