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by lifty 953 days ago
Fully agree with you. I think the unknown that still remains is why that noise is created. It must be related to modern food processing, besides the abundance of food.
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I don't necessarily agree with that premise it's modern food processing.

The evolutionary human condition was primarily hunger. Animals fought over food. Humans fought, went to war over it. Nature has been that way for millions of years.

So now only in the past 100 years food has become abundant. Do you expect our evolution to change with it to be that quick too? That's really only 4 or 5 generations.

One data point here. In the 1700's, 1800's the rich were the ones that were fat, because they were the ones that had the abundance.

That doesn’t explain the discrepancy between USA and other regions of the world where obesity rates are much lower but food is equally abundant.