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The body learns from its mistakes.

Are you sure about that? If the body could truly learn on such fast turnaround times, we wouldn't have an obesity epidemic, I think.




The body learns associations. There are reproducible experiments with rats who develop a liking for chalk water after sugar is added to it; and it takes them a couple of weeks to stop liking it when sugar is out.

There are some experiments showing the same is true with humans, with a time constant of 3-6 weeks.

From memory, relevant papers are from Michel cabanac. Seth Robert’s “what makes food fattening” is a great overview of related results, whether or nit you agree with his take.




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