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A taste for sweet: The evolutionary origins of why you're programmed to love sugar

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By Stephen Wooding

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Congratulations! JT, this is an article that deserves a Nobel Prize.

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Agreed, that’s quite a rare outstanding contribution this time.

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The basic activities of day-to-day life, such as raising the young, finding shelter and securing enough food, all required energy in the form of calories. Individuals more proficient at garnering calories tended to be more successful at all these tasks. They survived longer and had more surviving children – they had greater fitness, in evolutionary terms.

That statement sums up evolution, or more specifically selective reproduction, about as well as any I have ever read.

Anyone who decides they want to reduce their sugar consumption is up against millions of years of evolutionary pressure to find and consume it.

That sentence made me laugh out loud, followed by a deep sigh. Very good article JT, if not necessarily uplifting to those of us doing battle with millions of years of evolutionary pressure, lol.

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