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If you could continually get wonderful feelings just from eating a product, and the product never made you feel full, you might continue eating it until you've
by jschwartzi 11y ago
If you could continually get wonderful feelings just from eating a product, and the product never made you feel full, you might continue eating it until you've consumed an entire package. At that point, you read the back and realize that you just ate 3000 calories in a single sitting and have a little panic attack.
- mikeash 11y agoThis sounds an awful lot like saying that food ought to taste bad so you don't eat too much of it. I'd rather have food that tastes good but is still something I'm able to eat in moderation. I get that food makers have no incentive whatsoever to get me to eat in moderation, but that looks like a different thing from the "bliss point."
- pyre 11y agoIt doesn't have to taste bad to force you to eat it in moderation. There are examples out there. People complain that Pepsi is too sweet, and you can only drink a small amount before they can't drink anymore. You could also talk about the salt levels on certain foods (where after a certain amount they start tasting too salty, etc). Food makers want their food to never make you say, "Ok, that's enough this is getting too {sweet,salty,sugary,etc}". That's different from the food tasting bad.