The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
So the sour, the sweet, the salty, the bitter, and the umami system, were not there so that we could have this wonderful pallet of foods that we enjoy so much, they'll allow us to do that, but they're there to make sure that we bring in certain things to our system and that we don't ingest other things.
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Bookmarking — the dossier-vs-overview split is the right call. Most of the time I want overview; sometimes I want receipts.
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Taste is about, can we get the nutrients we need to survive? And can we ensure that we are attracted to the ones we need? And we adverse to the ones that are going to kill us
That's the kind of core function of the nervous system.