Fast food averages about 1,200 calories per pound,1709 whereas traditional African diets, which more closely represent the likely diet of our ancient ancestors, average fewer than 500 calories per pound.1710 So the biological mechanisms our bodies use to regulate our weight likely evolved in the context of eating at least four or five pounds of food a day. That may be the more natural amount of food to eat. If your body is counting on eating five pounds of food but you max out with the same number of calories eating just two pounds of modern convenience food, what do you think happens? It’s no
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