Pittsburg, Kansas | thinkstoomuch - 6/10/2022 07:58 J I also don't think human history has had a time where a human body had 500 grams of carbs available daily for decades on end to have a prior evolutionary event to match it or compensate for it. Fruit harvest wasn't meant to occur 365 days a year.
I would say that is a key component. We just were not made to handle that much sugar (carbohydrates are just long chains of sugar molecules), we were not made to eat snacks all day long (unintentional fasting was probably a natural part of human evolution, constant carb consumption leads to insulin resistance because of continual high levels of insulin rather than periodic bolus), and modern fruit bears little resemblance (with a lot higher sugar content) to ancient fruit that our ancestors would have consumed in the wild seasonally.
Like a kid in a candy store, we just have too much of a good thing presented to us.
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