03/12/2025
It’s the time of the year when many friends have their birthdays - and my newsfeed starts filling up with birthday cake!
Turns out, celebrating birthdays with cake started in Germany - where so much of baking originated.
Though in almost all parts of the world, celebrating anything involves sugar and sat fats and increasingly, trans fats - the WORST concoction for heart patients, anyone at cardiac risk, diabetics, for anyone, really…
Why do humans celebrate with this dodgy stuff?
And does the original logic that gave rise to this custom in ancient times even apply any more??