> Maybe we should focus on why people use food to feel happy rather than why food is manufactured to make people feel happy. That's not really fair. I agree wi

> Maybe we should focus on why people use food to feel happy rather than why food is manufactured to make people feel happy. That's not really fair. I agree with your general skepticism in this thread (there's a reason that most of these studies show small effects due to dietary modifications but most anecdotes of the same are "and now everything is amazing!"), but the human body is designed to crave things like fat and sugar and to feel good when they're acquired. Some kind of ascetic lifestyle -- where we can remove the desire for the pleasure of eating -- may be possible, but the physical design of the body and our reward system indicates that enjoyment from eating food is built right in. It would be like ignoring people perpetuating fraud and instead only trying to solve all the ways that the human brain is susceptible to it.