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solinaceae t1_j8r4jpw wrote

Fructose doesn’t also stimulate the satiety hormones unless it gets converted into glucose first, which only a portion of it does. So you’re hungrier on a fructose diet than a glucose diet.

And a metabolic pathway to process it in the liver can lead to fatty liver disease.

But let’s put it in all our food and drinks.

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Gloomy-Emphasis t1_j8qzuot wrote

Here is what I don't get: Why does eating a fruit enhance the ability to search for fruit?

If you imagine a person starving then they need food. So currently they don't have this enhanced searching ability, so they fail and starve. And a different person finds a tree with fruit and now they can find another tree with fruit, BUT they already have one?!

So for me it makes more sense to have the starving person forget everything else and focus on searching and the non-starving person can rest.

What I'm trying to say is, how do the researchers know that this is a foraging adaption pathway?

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