For roughly 190,000 years as we spread ourselves across the planet, the elements of our diet that were difficult to come by were sugars, salt and fats. When we did find them it was important to take maximum advantage of the opportunity. These days we can provide ourselves with endless amounts of these but we have not lost our “hard wired” instinct to take maximum advantage of the opportunity to consume them when we have the chance.
Indeed the craving for these things has a much longer history than just the span of Homo sapiens so it is no surprise that we find it very difficult to restrict our consumption of these things…
I feel like some chocolate… Since I prefer the very dark chocolate with next to no sugar (I haven’t checked) I presume that would be the fats coming into play.
Quite right. If you look for low sugar, you will find food loaded with fats and salt.
Low fat foods are frequently sugar and salt laden.
Low sodium foods are made from sweetened lard.
If you eat foods with no salt, fat, or sodium, it will probably taste like nothing at all. Then, of course, before you know it you’re going to die anyway.
You don’t have to be a greeny to see that the end of oil must come. You do have to be able to think. Such a rare trait.