• Question: Why are all the good things bad for you. E.g. chocolate, fizzy drinks and crisps?

    Asked by birsejwh to Helen on 17 Jun 2011.
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      Helen Fletcher answered on 17 Jun 2011:

      Sigh, so true!! I think it’s because sugar and fat were not readily available to us when we were hunter-gatherers but we craved them as they gave us energy to survive. Now we don’t need to hunt our food anymore but still have the instinct to go for the high sugars and fats.

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