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[-] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago

Correction: Why is tasty unhealthy food so much easier than tasty healthy food?

[-] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 13 points 1 year ago

From what I understand, it's that foods containing lots of fats, sugars, salt etc aren't normally unhealthy, out in the wild. When you're worried about not starving, foods with energy storage substances like sugar are a good thing, and the amount you'll get in some wild fruit or something isn't bad. Salt is an essential thing to get enough of, and overabundance of it in food isn't common. So, rather than evolve some ability to know exactly what substances we need and only want to eat food with those exact things, we have the evolutionary shortcut of "sweet things are good, fatty things are good, salty things are usually good, etc". Our biology hasn't really evolved to for the possibility of us farming stuff that contains sugar on an industrial scale, extracting and concentrating that sugar, and then putting unnaturally large concentrations of it in everything.

[-] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

That is my understanding as well. But that wouldn't work in the context of the joke, where god just designed everything.

[-] Grippler@feddit.dk 3 points 1 year ago

Tasty unhealthy foods are also way tastier than even the tastiest veggie dish.

[-] Honytawk@lemmy.zip -1 points 1 year ago

That is only true in the meat addicted West.

Go to India and get yourself some nice authentic curry.

[-] Grippler@feddit.dk 1 points 1 year ago

You're falsely assuming that junk food is always meat based. But a curry dish ain't got nothing on a deep fried Snickers.

[-] vixven_random@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Have you tried eating those unhealthy food raw/unseasoned? With enough butter/sugar anything will taste like heaven

[-] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago

Adding enough butter, sugar, salt, etc is easy, and makes it unhealthy. Making it taste good without lots of butter, sugar, salt is hard.

That's kind of my entire point

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