Evolutionary Diet Mismatch

Ancestral sugar exposure is estimated at roughly one teaspoon per day, presented as the amount human biology is best adapted to handle. Agriculture emerged only within the last 4,000 years, a very short period in evolutionary terms, and early agricultural foods involved little to no modern processing. Homo sapiens DNA has not changed significantly in approximately 40,000 years, while the modern diet emerged far more recently. Sweet foods tasted good because sweetness historically signaled rare, quick-energy foods that aided survival and fat storage in scarcity.