Killing Us Softly: These Foods Can Be Mood-Killers Eating makes us happy. We are biologically wired this way, and it makes sense that we would have evolved like this: in order to live a hardscrabble life on the savannah hundreds of thousands of years ago, our ancestors would need every scrap of nutrient we could find. We register our bodies consuming the food we need to survive by activating pleasure centers in our brains, and this drives us to seek more of the same.… Read the rest