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> for a lot of us, over-eating is a response to anxiety 100%. We use food as entertainment. To get a dopamine hit from fats and carbs. For most of human histo
by nojvek 2y ago
> for a lot of us, over-eating is a response to anxiety
100%. We use food as entertainment. To get a dopamine hit from fats and carbs.
For most of human history, food was scarce. We evolved to get huge dopamine hits from food. Our brain sees starving as a danger. It's only post WWII that food became abundant.
Now those signals work against us.