If you鈥檝e ever beaten yourself up after eating an entire pint of ice cream, know this: it鈥檚 really not your fault. According to obesity researcher and neurobiologist Stephen Guyenet, author of 聽and founder of the wellness and science blog , millions of years of evolution have hardwired us to seek out sugary, fatty, and salty聽foods. All those calories kept us alive back when we were hunter-gathers. Today聽they just make us fat. 国产吃瓜黑料 editor Christopher Keyes sits down with Guyenet to discuss why we feel so powerless in the face of decadent desserts, how different systems in our brain compete for dominance, and what we can do to combat all this temptation.
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