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This is my personal (unproven) theory about the obesity epidemic. People eat more than ever but are still hungry for more. It's because our food is less nutriti
by dcchambers 3y ago
This is my personal (unproven) theory about the obesity epidemic. People eat more than ever but are still hungry for more. It's because our food is less nutritional. Although we're getting adequate calories - we're not getting enough nutrients, and our bodies are telling us to eat more.
- ch4s3 3y agoThat’s not at all how satiety works. People over eat for all kinds of reasons and there is a lot of low volume and highly calorically dense food available now. You feel full a little while after you’ve hit a certain level of physical fullness in your stomach. Very few people in the west have meaningful micro nutrient deficiencies.
- dcchambers 3y agoOr do we not have micro nutrient deficiencies because we overeat in order to hit those needs? Obviously there's flaws in my silly theory. I'm not a biologist or chemist, just something I think correlates in an interesting way.
- ch4s3 3y agoThe why doesn’t really matter, we don’t have a hunger regulation mechanism that relates to micro nutrients.
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