Just as our hunter-gatherer ancestors, we are designed to live in a state of metabolic flexibility where our energy production system can easily switch from burning fat to carbs and back as per convenience. And like our paleolithic fore-fore-fore fathers, we are encoded for a diet high in fat, sufficient in protein, and low in carbs. Also referred to as being fat adapted. But this modern, consumerist oriented lifestyle which serves the palate and not the belly, focusing on the commercial viability and not the health and thus the ethical repercussions, has created an entirely new branch of cuisine known as 'Palatable food' which is designed? to cause dependence (And also to last indefinitely), leading to metabolic diseases aplenty, and 'withdrawal and craving' reflex which we have begun to incorrectly identify as hunger. Mostly processed and refined products come under this category. (Read: High glycemic index, Sugar, Processed/Refined carb) Think about it. You have atle...
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