alt Hacker NewsThe thing is we're all experts at eating food, we've all been doing it our whole lives. You'd think in that time one would have cultivated an intuition about whether they are eating too much or too little regardless of the nutrition information.
The thing is we're all experts at eating food, we've all been doing it our whole lives. You'd think in that time one would have cultivated an intuition about whether they are eating too much or too little regardless of the nutrition information.
Constant and plentiful supplies of food are, on an evolutionary scale, a somewhat recent thing. Agriculture itself is what, around 12k years old - a few hundred generations?
We're all experts at eating food but having an instinctual understanding of exactly when to stop eating was probably much less important historically.