Todd Moody wrote:

>Our enjoyment of sweets and fats indicates, as you have argued,
>that we are calorie-seeking organisms and,

I think there is also some addictive element to it. I gave up sweets
several decades ago. I do not find sweet things at all enjoyable. Chocolate
is particularly unappealing.

Don (who still has the box of sugar he bought 25 years ago when setting up
his kitchen, guests have used some).