When a hunter-gatherer finds honey that he can separate from its bees, he and his friends will likely gorge on it, for there is no knowing when the next burst of sugary goodness will come their way again.32 But since food resources are no longer scarce, gorging is not an effective strategy, because the scarcity never comes. Instead, we get more opportunities to gorge. We have to willfully override our evolutionary impulses in order not to suffer the hyper-novelty that the twenty-four-hour grocery store provides. Putting yourself on a schedule, as intermittent fasting recommends, of not eating
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