In 2016, I survived 30 days on the Whole30 diet. The goal of the diet, I’d call it a “reset,” is to eat unprocessed, whole foods with no sugar added to them for 30 days. Many things happen to your body and taste buds during this time, but the most exciting thing is that your taste buds “wake up” by the end. You’ve been eating foods with so much added sugar and so many snack foods with sugar profiles grossly augmented with high fructose corn syrup that you no longer know what “natural” sweetness is. By the end of my 30 days, fruit tasted candy sweet again; oranges had new life on my taste buds, and I now prefer eating a fresh orange instead of drinking a cup of sugar water orange juice. Stick with me; I’m bringing this home.
In 2024, you’ve likely become accustomed to headphones with the bottom-end augmented, some with a grossly augmented “high fructose bass response.” When I first began listening to the new Beats Solo 4, I thought they had no bass, thus the title of this article.
