If sugar is so bad for you then why does it taste so good?

It's to tempt you

>>38925995
God has a wicked sense of humor m8

>>38925995
It's good for brain growth and as an energy source.
The body rewards you for eating fatty and sweet foods because those provide immediate energy returns which are assumed to have been beneficial to our early ancestors.

>>38925995
Poison is defined by dosage. Eating sugar in its natural form (re: fruit) is completely fine, because you'd vomit before you took in as much sugar as the typical American consumes. Extracting it, then putting it into everything is why it's bad for you. It tastes good because it's calorie dense, which is beneficial to a hunter gatherer/lower primate/small mammal. The individuals most compelled to consume these calorie dense foods had the highest odds of genetic success during times of famine, so their genes were promoted. Through a series of population bottlenecks, almost all of us have a dopamine response to sugar intake, which goes beyond making it taste good, and makes us feel good. A rat hooked up to a dopamine dispenser will hit the trigger for it until it dies. As mammals, we aren't much different, so many of us will consume sugar well into obesity, and as a result, death.

>>38925995
Just eat pineapples and oranges. Sweet and you get vitamins and fiber.
>eating actual candy like a normalpleb

The human brain is a carbohydrate fiend and demands it ASAP. Sugars are simple carbs that work fast. Your brain hardwires your senses to find sugar pleasurable to consume.

>>38925995
It's an efficient energy source but in nature it's not very abundant
We have chemical processes now that very efficiently separate sugar from the fiber it normally comes with
Like most poisons, sugar becomes effective above a critical intake threshold, and the human body has no adaptation to deal with excess sugar. It's a new phenomenon in our metabolic development

>>38925995
That's the monkey's paw in effect. Chief Unga wanted food taste good now all food taste good is bad for you.

>>38926116
>It's good for brain growth
Rats fed the rat equivalent of the amount of sugar the average American eats every day basically became retarded.