In the ancestral environment, sweet food (i.e. fruits and honey) was difficult to find in the wild, and our brains got wired to take advantage of every little opportunity to recharge with those sweet calories.
Now that we can mass-produce corn syrup and all kinds of cheap calories, our ancestral urges play against our best interest.
In the ancestral environment, sweet food (i.e. fruits and honey) was difficult to find in the wild, and our brains got wired to take advantage of every little opportunity to recharge with those sweet calories.
Now that we can mass-produce corn syrup and all kinds of cheap calories, our ancestral urges play against our best interest.