I was reading this article The Atlantic's by Marc Ambinder on his fight against obesity and it made me reflect on a lot of what I've been reading about obesity.
So here's the simple point on obesity (probably too simple) I'd like to make.
It's the food.
We eat highly engineered modern foods, we have learned to create foods that are highly abundant to ward off problems with food scarcity. This has been a terrific and altogether new feat in human history.
BUT... the biology in our bodies is still running under the rules of the caveman.
Cavemen could only eat what they could catch and scrounge. And starvation was the norm, not the exception.
A caveman's body had to be very efficient to ensure survival. So the biology of the caveman was for his or her body to not waste a single calorie and to store excess for later when food will be scarce (like winter).
A caveman's body was programmed to store in order to survive through harsh times.
Human bodies haven't changed much since then.
Our food has.
We live in a world of abundant food, and our caveman biology just isn't ready for it.
It may take 10,000 years for our bodies to catch up to eating and processing this new abundance of food.
So learning how to deal with this is in all of interests.
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