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by yrgulation
1416 days ago
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A good point. Incidentally i need to eat like a whale despite sitting on a chair all day long. Brainpower is a hungry business but i dont get it my body needs to store some of that food as fat. I eat all day long! Perhaps we are feeding it the wrong stuff and what we are used to eating is no longer suitable for how we use our bodies in the modern day? But what about the super developed countries of east asia where people appear to be skinny? Is there something wrong with our diet in the european and american world? |
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I've heard sugar makes people want to eat more. I'm pretty sedentary, so when I cut back on sugar, I can easily just kind of forget to eat.
Evolution doesn't know about fridges and thinks people still need to store energy, like as if we are going to walk 10 miles after a day long fast at any moment. So many constraints no longer exists, seems like we should definitely be able to eat better than before.
Who knows how many things no longer apply to most people. Maybe some foods enhanced fertility and that preference was selected for, but most people don't need them now. Maybe some things helped people heal from specific blunt trauma injuries that are now rare, but at the cost of causing some extra heart disease.
Almost every overweight person could kick my ass just by falling on me. They can probably lift more than me. Many would do 200% better in the wild than me, but statistically they are at risk for heart problems and many already have assorted aches and pains.
The whole concept of health in popular culture is way too tied to strength and survival and naturalness. Why do we seem to pay more attention to who can climb a mountain and lift 400lbs than we do to which populations live the longest and have the least illnesses?