Pizza And Cocaine? They're The Same To Your Brain

Foods that combine high levels of fats and carbohydrates or sugar can seem like a match made in heaven. They taste so good that it's easy to overlook that there are actually very few examples in nature of foods that combine these two nutrients.

For tens of thousands of years, our ancestors got their fats and carbs from separate places: fats from meat and seeds, and carbs from grasses, aquatic plants, leaves, stems, and berries.[1] It was pretty unusual for early humans to combine these foods in a single meal. As early farming developed, humans began combining foods, such as starchy grains and fatty milk products.

Then, in the last century and a half or so, foods combining fats and carbs into one meal have become the norm for many of us: Pizza, ice cream, nutty candy bars, pastries—they're all high in both fats and sugar. But 150 years is the blink of an eye in terms of human evolution, and our bodies still don't really know what to make of this newfangled nutrient...

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