Something I haven't seen mentioned in this thread yet: I believe that the primary reason that we get on whacked out diets is that we're using huge numbers of su

Something I haven't seen mentioned in this thread yet: I believe that the primary reason that we get on whacked out diets is that we're using huge numbers of substitutes for natural foods which screw up our bodies natural calibration. The craving you have for "sweets"? yeah, there wasn't any readily available source of processed sugar in the ancestral environment. That craving is actually for fruit. This is a low tech version of wireheading. You're short circuiting the built in reward mechanisms of the brain by giving it an overload of the things it considers positive. You crave fat and sugar because these things are rich in nutrients and energy. We're built for scarcity and can't cope when we have unlimited access to these things. Try reducing your intake of junk food and after 2 months you'll find normal cravings start to return and normal foods tasting better.