Uploaded November 2024 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Darwin tries to resist eating high-calorie lemon meringue pie. But his cravings get the better of him. Natural selection has given us a craving for calories because in prehistoric times that was the best way to survive: to eat calories when they were briefly available then store extra calories safely in body fat. But today our bodies are preparing us for a famine that never comes. Body fat is a good thing, but today it leads to obesity.
Darwin tries to resist eating high-calorie lemon meringue pie. But his cravings get the better of him. Natural selection has given us a craving for calories because in prehistoric times that was the best way to survive: to eat calories when they were briefly available then store extra calories safely in body fat. But today our bodies are preparing us for a famine that never comes. Body fat is a good thing, but today it leads to obesity.
