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Because we’re genetically engineered to crave stuff that is awful for our bodies in high amounts. Finding sugar in the wild meant foraging for berries for hours or fighting bees for honey. Now you can buy it at the supermarket cheaper than a head of lettuce.

So.. the problem and solution is capitalism? :)

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