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by ChiperSoft 39 days ago
> healthy low calorie diet for about two weeks

It's all the fructose in western diets. Tens of centuries of Europeans eating bountifully in the fall and then fasting through winter and spring evolved metabolic reactions that fructose means "pack on weight now because we'll be needing it"

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This sounds like it would be correct. Got a good reference tho ?