RichardKennaway comments on Akrasia and Shangri-La - Less Wrong

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Comment author: David_Gerard 10 March 2014 08:56:17AM *  0 points [-]

The essential problem remains: humanity's basically solved the food problem, but our genes don't understand this so pack on the fat in preparation for a famine that will never arrive. So all diets are unnatural. Too much food for our health is a great problem to have, though, much better than the previous problem.

Comment author: RichardKennaway 11 March 2014 08:46:13AM 0 points [-]

So all diets are unnatural.

I thought the entire point of the paleo diet is that it is natural, er, consonant with the ancestral evolutionary environment?

Comment author: David_Gerard 11 March 2014 10:48:26PM 0 points [-]

So it claims. I believe this is more than slightly disputed.