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Well yes, that's kind of the problem. Our monkey brains go mad for energy dense food ie sugar and fat. That's a good motivator to stick your bare hand in a bee
by benj111 8y ago
Well yes, that's kind of the problem.
Our monkey brains go mad for energy dense food ie sugar and fat. That's a good motivator to stick your bare hand in a bee hive, or hunt down a Mammoth with a pointy stick. Doesn't work so well in the modern day, when a salad is what we should really be eating.
- aidenn0 8y agoNot just sugar and fat though; eat plain bread made without any salt or seasoning; you will eat less than bread made other ways. Same for unseasoned potatoes.
- ChuckMcM 8y agoAnd there is a really interesting effect I've noticed which I think of 'sugar blindness' which is that when I stopped eating a lot of sweet things my taste buds became more attuned to the taste of sweet. So things that weren't sweet before, are now. Its really an odd thing to experience.
- danmaz74 8y agoAnedoctically, it's a thing the other way around too. When I moved to the UK from Italy, lots of foods tasted too sweet to me. After a year here, I don't feel that any more.
- belltaco 8y agoUhh, there was a story on HN stating exactly that a few days ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19858762 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19858762
- m463 8y agoThere was that russian cosmonaut study that consuming salt got you to consume more calories: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/08/health/salt-health-effects.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/08/health/salt-health-effect...