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> I can imagine a future scenario where, in the interests of public health, someone figures out how to transliterate the 'too much salt' genes to 'too much suga
by koolba 3y ago
> I can imagine a future scenario where, in the interests of public health, someone figures out how to transliterate the 'too much salt' genes to 'too much sugar' genes.
Doing it for the masses “for their own good” is quite dystopian.
But doing it for yourself is easy and no gene therapy is required. Just cut out sweet foods and after not too long normal foods like bread will taste sweet, and sweetened foods will taste unnaturally toxic.
- MostlyStable 3y ago"simple" and "easy" are very much not the same thing.
- Supermancho 3y agoAlso making different choices is not the same thing as what the OP suggested.
- Firmwarrior 3y agoI've done it before, it's not as hard as you'd think even living in the USA. Just go cold turkey on sugar and especially soda for a couple of weeks It was easy to uncondition myself again accidentally though, haha
- dnfjficiv 3y ago[dead]
- OJFord 3y ago> Just cut out sweet foods and after not too long normal foods like bread will taste sweet I don't really eat (or drink) that much sweet stuff at all, but I assume this is not-great industrial-scale bread you're talking about - with sugar added, not just a little salt, as a preservative; or for a shiny glazing. There's no sugar in the regular bread I bake every few days/week, and unsurprisingly it doesn't taste sweet. I really don't think any less sugar in my diet would change that (I'm not 'cutting' it, I just don't at all often have pudding, never sugar in my coffee, etc. I'd have to drop chutneys, fruit, wine to have much less).
- Retric 3y agoDon’t eat so fast and let the enzymes work. As you chew saliva breaks down the starch into individual sugars which you should then perceive as sweet. https://www.thenakedscientists.com/get-naked/experiments/white-bread-and-wonder-enzymes https://www.thenakedscientists.com/get-naked/experiments/whi... Cut out enough sugar from your diet as you can start to notice the sweetness without exaggerated mastication.
- OJFord 3y agoLeads with a photo of 'not-great industrial-scale bread', and even explicitly calls for 'slice of cheap bread' as an ingredient... it's not doing much to convince me that the described effect is due to starches converting that quickly. I'm fairly confident the packaging for the pictured slice would have listed sugar as an ingredient.
- Retric 3y agoI’ve tested it on homemade bread without sugar and noticed it. It even works when you don’t tell people ahead of time why they’re doing the experiment. The link was chosen arbitrarily, you can find plenty of other examples if you’re concerned about its authenticity. But, it’s not a very strong flavor so you do want a bland bread.
- trillic 3y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amylase https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amylase