You can eat a lot during the Holiday Season and gain no body fat, as long as you also eat little

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You can eat a lot during the Holiday Season and gain no body fat, as long as you also eat little

var citeN=0; The evolutionary pressures placed by periods of famine shaped the physiology of most animals, including humans, toward a design that favors asymmetric food consumption. That is, most animals are “designed” to alternate between eating little and then a lot. Often when people hear this argument they point out the obvious. There is no evidence that our ancestors were constantly starving

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No fat gain while eating well during the Holiday Season: Palatability isolines, the 14-percent advantage, and nature’s special spice

var citeN=0;Like most animals, our Paleolithic ancestors had to regularly undergo short periods of low calorie intake. If they were successful at procuring food, those ancestors alternated between periods of mild famine and feast. As a result, nature allowed them to survive and leave offspring. The periods of feast likely involved higher-than-average consumption of animal foods, with the opposite

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