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by overcast 1225 days ago
Wonderful news, this chocolate eclair is healthy for me!
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When food was scarce? That eclair would absolutely improve your chance of survival.
And to the ripe old age of 30 years!
This is a misconception about life expectancy statistics. For most of human history, if you survive past early childhood, you can expect to live a pretty long life. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-scientific-funda...
"Life expectancy at age five" (or 4 or wotevs) seems much more useful, but it is rarely seen nowadays. No idea why.
The ingredients probably are, the quantities possibly not
Sugar - sadly - isn't a spice.
The title is implying tasting good = healthy.
My point is that there's room for a little more nuance than that; "your body likes X because it's good for you" doesn't imply a universal rule, just a specific correlation.
It's really more like tasting good = evolutionarily useful.
Which is true for sugar. It's good if you get a few grams of sugar while running around the forest all day. It's not good to get half a pound of sugar from big gulp softdrinks while you're sitting in traffic.
Not necessarily, even in the evolutionary biology model. Something can taste good to humans entirely by accident, and be evolutionarily neutral (or even a small amount negative). Just like the reason men have nipples.
This is probably more true of sweet-tasting poisons like lead diacetate than sugars.
This is one of the dangerous concepts pushed by the “Intuitive Eating” pro-obesity folks.
When in doubt: Paracelsus!

“All things are poison and nothing is without poison; only the dose makes a thing not a poison.”