Why is that some best tasting food is bad for you?

Yeah right! You KNOW your coming out with one of those unreasonably large cardiac clogging Angus burgers! Asked by DockDrumming 49 months ago Similar questions: tasting food Food & Drink > Cooking.

Fats and sugar... Imagine you are a caveperson back in the day. You have to spend all day finding food. All you usually get are greens and meat.

And the meat is lean. So here it is, the end of summer and you find fruits and grains (carbohydrates). They are easy to get, they taste good and they make you feel good.

Actually, the carbs are signalling your body to get ready for the coming winter. Your body is being instructed to store fat and eat more carbs. And it feels good so you will keep eating them.

Finally it is winter and you are a fat good-feeling slob. Now you can survive sitting in the cave all winter with little or nothing to eat. The problem today is that you don't starve through the winter.

You just keep storing fat, eating more and feeling good. As far as fats go, I have read that early pioneers had a real problem getting fats in their diet. I would think that the caveman also had this problem, unless he could kill a fat animal.

The pioneers killed bears. Going out on a limb here, I would think that only a really big bad animal would have a chance to get fat. I am thinking mammoth, so if eating fat didn't feel good, what would be the incentive to get off your butt and kill a fat animal?.

I think our taste buds were designed for when we didn't have an abundance of food. When we were evolving on the plains of Africa, we had to hunt for meat and forage for fruits, nuts and vegetables. The good tasting stuff is usually energy dense.

If you didn't have enough energy (calories) you could be slower than that lion who could be hunting you. Now, as to the foods in your description; I am on a low carb, medium fat diet. The omelet with cheese is fine, the ice cream, if it is sugar free is OK, low sugar (dark) chocolate is OK and if you throw away the buns, that McD's burger is fine too.

What we don't need is the very calorie rich sugar in our society.

It's all about survival Throughout history, the animals who get enough food are the ones who survive. Animals who eat lots of high calorie foods did better than animals who didn't get enough to eat and starved, so we've all developed to want to eat food that has a lot of sugar, fat, and protein. Your body knows that it's great to keep you going, so it tries to convince you to eat it by making it taste so good.It's the same reason some things naturally turn our stomach.

Rotten food can poison us, or give us diseases, so those of us who have a tendency to avoid rotten food survived. If any of our ancestors thought that eating poisonous food tasted delicious, they wouldn't have survived to have any kids. Those genes wouldn't have been passed on.

Instead, our ancestors who ate plenty of sweet, fatty foods stayed healthy through the long winters or the lean times, and we all got those food-loving genes. Of course, now that most of us don't have to worry about starving, we still love the fatty foods, but we end up eating too much and not getting enough exercise. The food itself isn't bad for us, eating too much of it and not working it all off in the fields or chasing animals for food or working the factory is what's bad for us.

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All the best tasting food is bad for you. That's because it's all made from some combination of sugar, fat, and refined carbohydrates, the most delicious stuff on earth! Somehow, by the adulteration of real foods over the last 100 years or so, we've come to prefer it.

Have you ever noticed all white or light colored foods are bad (well, if not bad, then not particularly healthy) for you? Also, notice how many of them begin with C. Bread, potatoes, rice, pasta, Crisco, cookies, cakes, candy, crackers, cheese, chocolate, chardonnay, chablis, champagne, cabernet, cream, coffee, cola, coconut.

Sometimes if I need to drop a quick 5 pounds, I just go on a "no white foods" and no "C foods" diet. I'm waiting for Woody Allen's movie "Sleeper" to come true, where sometime in the future we realize all the things we thought were bad for us are actually good for us. Hope I live to see the day!

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Because we've been trained to like SALT, SUGAR, FATS ... The American diet has modified over the years to one containing way too much Salt, Sugar, Fats, and other yummy things which taste good, but are bad for our health. Want to SooperSize it? Gee, that's usually bad for us too.(I'm as guilty as anybody here..) .

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