We loves nothing more than a new food craze. While for us this means things like chia seed, goji berries and baobab, in the early days of the European empire, it was potatoes, cocoa and sugar...
Nowadays, we tend to review our attachment to things like sugar as addictions. The flipside of this, of course, is the fetishisation of food products that are meant to be insanely good for us. Yes “Superfoods” come in many shapes and sizes. And we still believe that if we eat the right type of yogurt then we can sling as much booze and pizzas down our throats as we like...
Here is an interesting diagram showing tangible human health benefits.
