Always Craving For Pasta And Potatoes? Study Finds Link Between Carb Cravings and Ancestral DNA

A recent study suggests that ancient DNA may explain our craving for carbohydrates like bread and pasta. Researchers discovered that humans developed the ability to digest starches over 800,000 years ago, long before farming began, through the duplication of the salivary amylase gene (AMY1). Read on to know more.