31 May When traveling in rural areas in Asia, I noticed people were often awake around midnight, sleeping before and afterwards
In Honey's Unknown Benefits By Lindsey Duncan, ND, CN he states
I've heard this many times: “It's supposed to be this way.” I am less sure. How do the people who say this know what paleolithic sleep was like? Maybe rural people always get up at night because they don't get enough sunlight in the morning, or enough exercise or enough X - there are dozens of possible X's.
To be sure that sleep is supposed to be this way we'd need to know all the variables that have a big effect on sleep and then set all of them to their paleolithic values, and see what happens. The people who make the “supposed to be this way” claim don't seem to understand this.
I'm confused by why there's confusion around the evolutionary desire for extremely sweet things. Why is it more complicated than that?
Seth: Sugar is a low density form of energy. Fat is almost twice as dense. It is unclear that there is an evolutionary desire for “extremely sweet things” separate from a preference for sweetness.