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It is really unlucky that humans evolved to enjoy the least healthy foods, amirite?
by LockEnvironmental1 week ago
Could it be that naturally we enjoy these foods due to the high calorie value they had? Now we just have so much access that it's become an issue compared to the lack of food security we had previously
by Anonymous1 week ago
Quite sure we love salt, sugar and fat so much because its actually pretty hard to come by in abundance out in nature. Before the west got a hold of sugar cane and employed people against their will, we didnt really have easy access to sugar. Honey maybe? But im not too sure how widespread honey production was around the world. Im not even sure all of the world has honeybees? Salt wasnt refined at such a large scale as it is today. Most likely some guy would have to visit the ocean, boil hundreds of buckets of water and head back to the village with a handful of salt. Or mine a rock salt deposit and smash that to bits. Fat (in large quantities) was pretty much only from certain parts of the animal, which wasnt something that always was on the menu. Not to mention some of the animals you ate were so lean you barely got any fat in you. These are all actually pretty important things to get. We need all of them to stay alive, its just today we are overconsuming it to such an insane degree.
by Anonymous1 week ago
I think it was supposed to be funny
by Key-Tadpole1 week ago
Enslavement is just employment without benefits
by Anonymous1 week ago
It's not a euphemism. It's literally accurate. They are employed against their will and are paid room and board.
by violet411 week ago
Thanks
by Careful-Homework12031 week ago
fruit is sugar in nature, and boy do we like fruit
by Gullible_Judge1 week ago
We love sugar so much because it's instant energy and the primary source of our body for it. Remember when some little kid gets hyperactive when it eats sugar? It's because it's got a sudden boost of energy - think of it as pouring gasoline on a fire, it just flares up. Sugar is the first thing that gets used as energy (in a healthy, sober body). Fat is secondary storage that has to be broken down to create energy. That's the principle the Keto diet works on - if you don't have primary energy resources, the body goes directly to the second one - the fat.
by Anonymous1 week ago
Good problem to have. I much prefer an obesity epidemic to old school famines and mass starvation.
by Anonymous1 week ago
It could be
by Anonymous1 week ago
There are plenty of plants that are high in calories, but natural foods never taste as good as processed ones. There's also a big element of laziness/no time involved.
by Anonymous1 week ago
Which plants would be high in calories?
by Anonymous1 week ago
Avocado Coconut Olives Bananas Nuts (such as almonds, cashews, and walnuts) Potatoes
by Anonymous1 week ago
Potatoes are a wonderfood. Eating nothing but potatoes and butter can keep you alive indefinitely. Might not be super healthy but this combination contains everything we need to survive. Potatoes are amazing.
by Emelielittle1 week ago
It's not "unlucky" as if it were an accident. Whatever humans crave, our civilization will strive to make it so abundant that we routine take in too much.
by Hot-Committee13871 week ago
The reason sugar is more palatable than unflavoured oats is exactly because it is less complex and super easy to digest calories. It's not like the things we crave evolved arbitrarily so your hypothetical makes no sense.
by Anonymous1 week ago
What do you mean by arbitrary? If you mean it's not arbitrary in that there's some grand design, you're just wrong. If you mean that it's not arbitrary because we evolve traits that are favourable to survival, then yes? That's literally what evolution is and no one - OP included - suggested otherwise.
by Easy-Web1 week ago
Man, you are confused. Op said civilisation oversupplies food we crave so we end up eating too much. You said, "nuh uh what if we craved oats? We'd be too full and wouldn't overeat it." But we don't crave oats... precisely because it's hard to overeat.
by Anonymous1 week ago
Well then mother nature shouldn't have allowed Colonel Sanders into the mix
by Jbeatty1 week ago
I'm no scientist, but this is my understanding: Fats and sugars and the like are hard to get in nature, but necessary. It actually used to be a good thing that you you shouldn't eat too much of them, because they were hard to get so you wouldn't be eating a lot, so we evolved to basically need the least amount we possibly could. Now they're overabundant, and we still have that natural craving to find them.
by Anonymous1 week ago
I had to change my diet for health reasons. I've noticed that when you get away from the really awful stuff for a while and then try to eat it again later it tastes awful. I can't stomach most fast food now. I'm convinced we really are addicted to sugar and salt.
by Anonymous1 week ago
Other side of the coin: if you were still exercising as much as your average human 10,000 years ago you'd be able to eat anything you want in any amount and you'd be (more or less) completely healthy. Most adults don't exercise at all but still eat hyper-calorie-dense foods, and the difference between no exercise and constant exertion is something like 5,000+ calories per day.
by Anonymous1 week ago
No, you could not exercise as much as you want and eat as much as you want and be healthy. That isn't how this works. We have an evolutionary craving for sugar that is found in very small amounts in nature. Like you say, 10,000 years ago when that sugar was hard to find, that is all okay. But 10,000 years ago, that sugar was not available in the super dense volume per dessert, sweets, candy etc that you can find it in today. You would not, in fact, "be able to eat anything you want in any amount and you'd be (more or less) completely healthy".
by Easy-Web1 week ago
Those ancient, 10K years ago people... They were LAZY, as lazy as possible. When they had enough food, they did not exercise at all (except for sex).
by Upbeat-Bee64371 week ago
Op thinks we evolved alongside hamburgers and sugarfilled food... And evolution doesn't work the way you think
by BusSilly41791 week ago
Humans evolved to prioritize high calorie foods because food used to be scare. We needed the calories. Things have changed in many parts of the world and those high calorie foods are now more available.
by Anonymous1 week ago
Its not the food thats the problem. Its the quanity you consumed that could be problematic. If you want to enjoy some oreoes go for it just dont eat the whole container in 1 sitting.
by Anonymous1 week ago
Oops.
by Anonymous1 week ago
If you eat healthy food, you will crave healthy food and super-processed foods seem really gross.
by Anonymous1 week ago
It's not us.. this was formulated to create this
by Anonymous1 week ago
Nature doesn't want us around for too long, so we have a build in self-destruct. We're very good at it.
by Anonymous1 week ago
Thefe are unhealthier food that we Don t eat cause we don t like it. They ll always be an unhealthiest food amongst food we enjoy...
by Brice351 week ago
We blame bad food instead of calling out bad eating habits. That's the problem.
by Over_Presentation1 week ago
My stoned ass Def read that as humans being the least healthy food
by Anonymous1 week ago
All life evolved to enjoy the least healthy food, because in nature you don't have 24/7 access to food. Humans learned how to farm, how to cook, how to raise cattle, we actually produce more food than we consume, but because of poor transportation people go hungry, and because we produce so much food, what used to be a special treat that gives extra need calories became an unhealthy food.
by Anonymous1 week ago
It's actually the most healthy. Just not meant to be eaten every meal.
by Right-Calligrapher211 week ago
It's probably better to think of it as things that are bad for us evolved to be tasty so we'll propagate their species; removing the risk of their extinction*. \Many species have gone extinct at the hands of humans because they were so tasty.)
by alda981 week ago
This is completely wrong… we evolved our food to make use of the mechanisms that biology generated to keep us alive. Hacked the wrong way
by Anonymous1 week ago
We crave foods that are necessary for survival. Survival is no longer the issue
by Jovandavis1 week ago
That's not bad luck. You're forgetting how those cravings evolved - through millions of years living with a scarce and unpredictable food supply. In those conditions, "Eat all the calories you can find" was the optimal strategy, for like a billion years, and then junk food became abundant like 75 years ago, which is nothing on the evolution time scale. So we crave fat salt, and calories because managing to get enough was crucial for the survival of 1000 generations of ancestors, and getting too much of them wasn't even possible. The change to calories being cheap and easily available 24/7 was way way too recent to have adapted to. But it's not bad luck that we're still running that old program. It's what let your ancestors outbreed anything that wasn't hoarding all available calories!
by Beahansyble1 week ago
And to need fresh water when only 3% of all water is fresh. It is seemingly contrary to the whole theory.
by Anonymous1 week ago
What? This is like saying that it's unlucky that our brains relase happy chemicals when we do things that make our brains release happy chemicals
by Anonymous1 week ago
i legitimately love eating healthy foods
by TemporaryDrummer24901 week ago
It's the other way around. We designed junk foods that directly target our bodies' most natural cravings, salts, sugars, and fats.
by No-Principle-1581 week ago
Do they not teach evolution in schools anymore?
by Fickle_Yesterday_6481 week ago
As someone who loves healthy food (and eats sometimes too much of it because it tastes damn well), I partly think this is a habit problem, but it doesn't have to be a problem in general IMHO.
by Anonymous1 week ago
We didn't evolve to like the most healthy, we evolved to like the most effective fuels, and then those fuels became so abundant & easily available that we went way overboard and started killing ourselves via indulgence. (>◡<")
by Anonymous1 week ago
Humans didn't evolve to enjoy the least healthy foods. Humans evolved to enjoy calory dense foods as a survival mechanism. We then just isolated the most craved nutrients from the natural foods and put them back together in ways that trigger our survival instincts abnormally, causing us to crave them more than we should.
by Anonymous1 week ago
They're only unhealthy in overabundance. So we could say: Human evolution hasn't caught up with western capitalism.
by moentomas1 week ago
It literally has nothing to do with luck.
by steubercaleigh1 week ago
We could've evolved to enjoy drinking paint. We didn't. (Or at least, I didn't try)
by johan821 week ago
Everything that eats evolved to enjoy and seek out the most densely caloric foods for survival. It's not just humans.
by Anonymous1 week ago
Points at koala, a creature that only consumes basically poison it can barely digest and get almost no nutrition from and cannot even recognize when not attached to a tree branch.
by ChoiceSound1 week ago
That's not how any of this works, all life "enjoys" sugar and carbohydrates. They literally fuel cells and considering all life is made up of billions of cells working together its only natural the most enjoyable foods are filled with fuel for our cells
by Plastic-You1 week ago
True I love my cyanide burgers!!
by InflationValuable1 week ago
it's because sugar=energy, energy=good but hard to get, So Sugar=good of course, calories aren't REALLY hard to get...
by Gullible_Judge1 week ago
We made them unhealthy because we enjoy them so much. These were calorie dense foods and much more scarce, so we developed a taste for these valuable and healthy treats. But we enjoyed them so much we kept making them more plentiful, turning them "unhealthy" in the process.
by Anonymous1 week ago
The parts of those unhealthy foods that we evolved to enjoy are not unhealthy in the quantities found in nature. They only become unhealthy when bumped up to unnatural levels and mashed together into a single, small, inexpensive, abundantly available item.
by Affectionate_Box1 week ago
This is one of the proofs that god doesn't exist. No true loving god would make almost everything that tastes good be bad for you.
by Anonymous1 week ago
I had a friend who once said that that was our punishment from god.
by Gold_Answer1 week ago
How do you like them apples?!!! - God apparently.
by No-Sheepherder1 week ago
dude they are great thank you
by Volkmangene1 week ago
I regret that I have but one updoot to give you...
by AcceptableWheel1 week ago
Nonsense. I love meat and meat makes me strong. Got a resting heart rate of 48 bpm and perfect blood pressure at age 42 and I eat meat all day long. That said every person is different and some people would not thrive at all on my diet.
by Anonymous1 week ago
More like it's unfortunate that humans manipulate unhealthy foods into being addictive so other humans get hooked on it and give them money til they're dead
by Intelligent_Bug_90791 week ago
I don't know if this is true, but I've read that children are attracted to sweet things because there is no natural poison that is sweet.
by Anonymous1 week ago
That's not how that works
by Anonymous1 week ago
You're acting like people can't choose what they eat and like your palette isn't trained by what you consume.
by leolafritsch1 week ago
Nono, I can't change anything about myself and every bad habit I have is an innate part of my personality. Discipline means self-deprival and every moment spent not indulging my impulses is painful and oppressive. The only way to achieve comfort is by purchasing objects to coddle my daily existence.
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