With all of the advancements made on this world, how have we not been able to make zero or low calorie amazingly tasting food like chocolate chip cookies!?!
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We shouldn’t be looking for substitutes. We should be looking for pills/meds that burn off excessive calories and sugars from the body.
But pharma industry would definitely say no to it.
The human body is really well evolved at seeking out sources of calories, and isolating those from poorer sources of calories. This basically means we are good at finding sources of sugars and fats. Remember: for most of our existence, finding enough calories was a very difficult task – its only fairly recently that we have a huge abundance of calories for most people.
Because of this, its quite hard to find chemicals that trigger the same taste and smell responses, do not provide lots of calories to us, and are not dangerous to some degree.
The bad things in food are what make them taste good. Your body makes you crave things with alot of calories as a survival mechanism so the low calorie version will always taste less good because of this. Carbs and fat are in fact nutrients and your body is hard wired to seek out whatever will keep it alive with the least amount of effort
What’s your expectation here? Non digestible paste with flavoring that just tumbles through your gut?
Calories are the main reason we eat food.. it’s going to be hard to make fake food that doesn’t do a number on your body.
We’ve found ways to make them with far fewer calories. Cookies made with sugar substitutes and lower fat exist.
But those substitutes come with their own health concerns in many cases. You have to have *some* chemical stimulating the sweet receptors in your mouth, and using chemicals your body isn’t made for can have odd side-effects – for example, some artificial sweeteners trigger an insulin response like sugar would, and others cause your blood to clot more easily. That’s not to say every artificial sweetener will instantly kill you or whatever – they won’t, and they might still be better than sugar – but they’re not “free” either.