is aging genetically controlled.

On 8/11/06, Xenophile wrote:
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> Finally, the whole thing ignored a simple fact, a fact which cannot be
> ignored if the problem is to be solved: junk food tastes good. People
> aren't eating Big Macs because the media have forced them too; people
> are eating Big Macs because Big Macs taste good.
(...)

I agree that the simplest explanation is that junk food tastes good.
And I think that there is a good evolutionary reason for that. After
thousands of years of intermittent starvation, most of human beings
are probably genetically programmed to LOVE fat and sugar and get fat,
and get fat *fast*, whenever possible.

Of course there is a minority of "mutants" who apparently are not
programmed that way. I for one like neither MacStuff nor Coke. (I
guess that Coke may be addictive due to the caffeine, but hey, coffee
and cappuccino are SO much better... ;-)