The American "Obesity Epidemic?"

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-eat balanced based on the body's intuitive mechanisms

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This is so horribly horrible wrong. We are not evolved to intuitively decide to eat 3 donuts and a mocha latte, or to decide between burger king, mcdonalds, and KFC. On the extreme end of the scale look at native peoples in N. America. They've evolved a digestive system to handle a diet extremely high in fats and protein. I've been to reservations and EVERYONE is fat, and none of them have teeth because of their diet which consists primarily of HFCS. Diabetes rates of the reserve populations is 5 times the national average.

And personally, if I ate only when I'm hungry I would be on the dangerous skinny end of the bell curve you talk about.