PSYA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Sympathetic Nervous System, Cortisol, Parasympathetic Nervous System
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Smoking is dangerous to your health, yet people still want to continue. If some bad habit doesn"t kill you before then. Evolution doesn"t discriminate against it, hence it persists. Do animal research to bail us out. Anytime ancestors have access to high fat foods, they eat a lot since it"s very occasional. There are going to be lean times and you need those fats to live. We were limited due to other compositions of sugary foods (fruits that also contain fiber and other nutrients that limit our consumption) Fatty foods are easily available and very cheap so we have unlimited access. Food sources with less fat are adapted in some countries. Associated with a lot of health risks. The more fat a country eats, the higher rate of heart disease (usa), asian countries eat more fish which have different type of fat. Two major causes of deaths in humans.
