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Many things that were adaptive in humanity's evolutionary environment, such as eating all the calories available are not healthy decisions for specific individu
by Zak 5y ago
Many things that were adaptive in humanity's evolutionary environment, such as eating all the calories available are not healthy decisions for specific individual humans today.
- xyzelement 5y agoAnd I don't think human beings pressure each other into over-eating on regular basis.
- Zak 5y agoHumans absolutely pressure each other into overeating. A great many social occasions in most cultures center around food and result in difficulty for people who struggle to maintain a healthy diet. They don't even need to be special occasions. "Let's go out for [500 calorie coffee drinks]" or "you deserve this [800 calorie slice of cake]" are routine for a lot of people in the US and EU. It's a different kind of pressure from the pressure to have kids, but it's definitely pressure.