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> It would be interesting to figure out if there's something in our food that is flipping the switch to lead down that path. There is, it's called carbohydrate

• mattmanser 11y ago
  There's been a heavy carbohydrates bias in our food for millennia. Bit strange to point at it now.
  • yellowapple 11y ago
    If anything, there's been a switch away from complex carbohydrates (grains and starches, particularly) as humans have gained easier and easier access to a wider diversity of foods, including - and particularly - simpler carbohydrates like sugars; the prevalence of fruit and added sugar (especially high fructose corn syrup, but even table sugar, agave, and other objectively-healthier sugar sources) in the modern diet could very well be worth examining as such an "environmental factor".