{"id":1617,"date":"2003-10-22T08:03:20","date_gmt":"2003-10-22T12:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2003\/10\/22\/fast-food-evolutionary-dead-end\/"},"modified":"2003-10-22T08:03:20","modified_gmt":"2003-10-22T12:03:20","slug":"fast-food-evolutionary-dead-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/10\/22\/fast-food-evolutionary-dead-end\/","title":{"rendered":"Fast Food Evolutionary Dead End"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a1547'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"10\" height=\"211\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/nutritit.gif\" width=\"160\" height=\"160\" align=\"top\"><\/td>\n<td width=\"517\">\n<p>Calorie-packed<br \/>\n        fast food encourages over-eating and weight gain because it is out of<br \/>\n        step with human evolution, scientists have said. <\/p>\n<p>        &quot;Since the dawn of agriculture, the systems regulating human appetite<br \/>\n        have evolved for the low energy diet still being consumed in rural areas<br \/>\n        of the developing world where obesity is almost non-existent.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>        &quot;Our bodies were never designed to cope with the very energy dense<br \/>\n        foods consumed in the West and this is contributing to a major rise in<br \/>\n        obesity.&quot; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ananova.com\/news\/story\/sm_830919.html?menu=news.latestheadlines\">from Ananova<br \/>\n    <\/a>      <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Calorie-packed fast food encourages over-eating and weight gain because it is out of step with human evolution, scientists have said. &quot;Since the dawn of agriculture, the systems regulating human appetite have evolved for the low energy diet still being consumed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/10\/22\/fast-food-evolutionary-dead-end\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}