The #intuitiveeating tag has more than two million posts on Instagram. The movement proposes putting aside diet culture and judgments about food and on our own bodies.

In 1939, what seems to be the first attempt to try to find out if humans were capable of choosing foods intuitively and correctly was published. This “nutritional intelligence” does appear in animals, which adapt their food choices based on the specific nutrients they need at any given time, writes Anna Mayer. It may be that the foods with the greatest amount of micronutrients are the tastiest, she says.