[FRIAM] bah!

[Marcus Daniels]

Steve writes:

< In the example at hand of the Sugar Tax,  we have already become 
unhealthy, obese (well some of us) refined-sugar addicts partly because 
our genome evolved to be greedy for rich sources of energy and partly 
because we evolved a consumerist economy which seeks to exploit any and 
every significant "weakness" such as this. >

Perhaps what is needed is a better understanding of what knobs to turn.   

http://www.nature.com/nm/journal/v22/n7/full/nm.4137.html