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If you give a diet to laboratory animalit’s very common for animals to gain a good bit of weight when given access to this diet. Even if they’re given healthy food at the same time, they’ll tend to ignore the healthy food and eat a diet like this. And there are two properties of this diet that help promote overeating and obesity in laboratory animals. What would you say the two features are?Sugar and fat.Sugar is what people usually guess first and that’s correct, fat is number two, so you guys are good so far. Who can guess what the third might be? Salt is a good guess, but that’s not the answer. But why would a lab animal seek out a diet, become very overweight, become nutritionally deficient in some things because it’s not eating the healthy foods to the extent that it becomes unhealthy? The fact is those lab animals have a hard-wired preference for foods that are high in fat and high in sugar, primarily because of the energy density that those foods bring to one, the seeking out fat and sugar is a highly evolved, adaptive evolutionary trait of animals and human.
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