-42 It is really unlucky that humans evolved to enjoy the least healthy foods, amirite?

by LockEnvironmental 1 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 Anonymous 1 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 Anonymous 1 week ago

I think it was supposed to be funny

by Key-Tadpole 1 week ago

Enslavement is just employment without benefits

by Anonymous 1 week ago

It's not a euphemism. It's literally accurate. They are employed against their will and are paid room and board.

by violet41 1 week ago

Thanks

by Careful-Homework1203 1 week ago

fruit is sugar in nature, and boy do we like fruit

by Gullible_Judge 1 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 Anonymous 1 week ago

Good problem to have. I much prefer an obesity epidemic to old school famines and mass starvation.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

It could be

by Anonymous 1 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 Anonymous 1 week ago

Which plants would be high in calories?

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Avocado Coconut Olives Bananas Nuts (such as almonds, cashews, and walnuts) Potatoes

by Anonymous 1 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 Emelielittle 1 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-Committee1387 1 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 Anonymous 1 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-Web 1 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 Anonymous 1 week ago

Well then mother nature shouldn't have allowed Colonel Sanders into the mix

by Jbeatty 1 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 Anonymous 1 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 Anonymous 1 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 Anonymous 1 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-Web 1 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-Bee6437 1 week ago

Op thinks we evolved alongside hamburgers and sugarfilled food... And evolution doesn't work the way you think

by BusSilly4179 1 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 Anonymous 1 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 Anonymous 1 week ago

Oops.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

If you eat healthy food, you will crave healthy food and super-processed foods seem really gross.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

It's not us.. this was formulated to create this

by Anonymous 1 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 Anonymous 1 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 Brice35 1 week ago

We blame bad food instead of calling out bad eating habits. That's the problem.

by Over_Presentation 1 week ago

My stoned ass Def read that as humans being the least healthy food

by Anonymous 1 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 Anonymous 1 week ago

It's actually the most healthy. Just not meant to be eaten every meal.

by Right-Calligrapher21 1 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 alda98 1 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 Anonymous 1 week ago

We crave foods that are necessary for survival. Survival is no longer the issue

by Jovandavis 1 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 Beahansyble 1 week ago

And to need fresh water when only 3% of all water is fresh. It is seemingly contrary to the whole theory.

by Anonymous 1 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 Anonymous 1 week ago

i legitimately love eating healthy foods

by TemporaryDrummer2490 1 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-158 1 week ago

Do they not teach evolution in schools anymore?

by Fickle_Yesterday_648 1 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 Anonymous 1 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 Anonymous 1 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 Anonymous 1 week ago

They're only unhealthy in overabundance. So we could say: Human evolution hasn't caught up with western capitalism.

by moentomas 1 week ago

It literally has nothing to do with luck.

by steubercaleigh 1 week ago

We could've evolved to enjoy drinking paint. We didn't. (Or at least, I didn't try)

by johan82 1 week ago

Everything that eats evolved to enjoy and seek out the most densely caloric foods for survival. It's not just humans.

by Anonymous 1 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 ChoiceSound 1 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-You 1 week ago

True I love my cyanide burgers!!

by InflationValuable 1 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_Judge 1 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 Anonymous 1 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_Box 1 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 Anonymous 1 week ago

I had a friend who once said that that was our punishment from god.

by Gold_Answer 1 week ago

How do you like them apples?!!! - God apparently.

by No-Sheepherder 1 week ago

dude they are great thank you

by Volkmangene 1 week ago

I regret that I have but one updoot to give you...

by AcceptableWheel 1 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 Anonymous 1 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_9079 1 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 Anonymous 1 week ago

That's not how that works

by Anonymous 1 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 leolafritsch 1 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.

by Anonymous 1 week ago