
“...the nearly universal tendency to crave rich food like cake and cheeseburgers and store the excess calories as fat is maladaptive under today's conditions of relentless abundance, but it must have been highly advantageous in the past when food was scarcer and less calorific.”
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The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease
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