stargazer1111
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http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/03/eating-fruit-fuels-bigger-brains-primates
I have suspected this for a while.
Also, our inability to produce vitamin C is strong evidence that humans evolved eating massive amounts of fruit. To lose the ability to produce vitamin C, we had to be consuming large amounts of it in our diet. The most concentrated source of it is in fruit. This would mean that we evolved to eat lots of fruit sugar. This might explain why sugar eaten in the proper context actually helps diabetics. It is very healthy.
It never made any sense to me that foods that are good for you taste bad and foods that are bad for you taste good. If that were true, we would have gone extinct because we would have sought out the very foods that reduced our fitness and avoided the ones that would have increased it. Obviously, our tastes can be fooled like when we drown bitter vegetables in dressing and other stuff that masks the bitter flavor which is supposed to warn us not to consume that substance again.
There is a reason kids don't like to eat their vegetables. They instinctively know that they are not entirely healthy.
I have suspected this for a while.
Also, our inability to produce vitamin C is strong evidence that humans evolved eating massive amounts of fruit. To lose the ability to produce vitamin C, we had to be consuming large amounts of it in our diet. The most concentrated source of it is in fruit. This would mean that we evolved to eat lots of fruit sugar. This might explain why sugar eaten in the proper context actually helps diabetics. It is very healthy.
It never made any sense to me that foods that are good for you taste bad and foods that are bad for you taste good. If that were true, we would have gone extinct because we would have sought out the very foods that reduced our fitness and avoided the ones that would have increased it. Obviously, our tastes can be fooled like when we drown bitter vegetables in dressing and other stuff that masks the bitter flavor which is supposed to warn us not to consume that substance again.
There is a reason kids don't like to eat their vegetables. They instinctively know that they are not entirely healthy.
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