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by luketych 3565 days ago
We evolved near the equator. There are more sweet things there year-round. Don't forget about honey.

Fiber, fiber, fiber. Sugar seems to be okay when it is packaged together with its copartner, fiber.

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Also starchy tubers.

You can get a 5 pound yam out of the ground with a stick. Given a few thousand years, fire using apes are going to look at what is under most plants that they see day to day.

Very correct.

Cooking also breaks down starches into sugars. And we are the cooking species. It helped drive our evolution forward.

It all seems to be about balance.