Farming communities and calorie incentives
We started farming communities to produce more food, which let populations grow, creating a loop where we needed even more calories. Eventually crops domesticated us, shifting the goal from thriving to just staying alive via caloric numbers. Since fat is expensive, society got taught it's the problem while sugar stayed unblamed. That logic pushed production toward less healthy options and sold cereal and orange juice as the ultimate healthy breakfast. #Nutrition
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The mechanism, I'm going to try to nail this, is like we started farming communities so that we could produce more food. And then we produced more food, which allowed us to make more people. And then we made more people, so we needed more food. And so we constantly just got into this loop of like, how can we make the most food? And then we essentially got domesticated by crops. Yes, because then we realized that it's not food, it's calories eventually, right? So then the incentive structure meant that like to keep people alive, not necessarily healthy and thriving. It's a caloric number, right? So then we start to shift for the less healthy means of creation. And then we start teaching people that like fat is the problem, right? Because fat is expensive and there's a lot of things involved when we only need to keep them fed with calories. So healthy breakfast, right? You need most important meal of the day. What do you eat with that? You eat the orange juice. You eat the cereal. you convince people that consuming unhealthy food is the healthy option. Cereal, orange juice, like sugar. Do you know what I'm saying? Like a lot of these things that we hold as staples in our diets and shit, they're actually horrible for us. If you enjoyed this, be sure to hit that like button and follow to stay up to date with what's going on in the world and everything else memes and markets. Peace.
