Sublime

These fruits are bred to be larger, and contain more sugar, than ever before in history. We are frequently told that it’s okay—beneficial, even—to consume “unlimited” fruit, but looked at through an evolutionary lens, fruit (and particularly today’s cultivated, high-sugar versions) may be uniquely adept at tricking our bodies’ metabolisms.

He sees Mark’s bag of fried flowers on the tip-pocked table. Funny thing about those flowers. Who’d voluntarily cook and eat a rose? It’s like planting and watering a breadstick. It’s perverse, and even sort of obscene, eating what’s clearly put on earth to be extra-gastric. Didn’t taste all that hot, either. And there’s still a piece stuck with

Shop the edges of the supermarket.30 Better yet, buy your food with as few middlemen as possible, as at a farmers market. Nearly everything from the middle of the supermarket has more sugar, more salt, more umami—generally by means that are not vetted, at least not in the long term. Chewing on sugarcane is to eating refined sugar as chewing on coca

Starch and sugar.

For the first time in history, there are more overweight than underweight humans walking the Earth.5 With our bodies constantly in a “fed” state, an ancient balance has been lost, one that has set us up for low brain energy, accelerated aging, and decay.

These are antioxidants added to keep the various animal and vegetable fats involved in a nugget from turning rancid. Then there are “antifoaming agents” like dimethylpolysiloxene, added to the cooking oil to keep the starches from binding to air molecules, so as to produce foam during the fry. The problem is evidently grave enough to warrant adding

Avoid food products that contain high-fructose corn syrup.