PSYC 3100 Lecture Notes - Intelligent Design, Junk Food, Pleistocene
16 Sep 2013
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The first class of bestselling drugs is cholesterol drugs: that shows our diet and bodies are messed up, we don"t have to go far for junk food, and there"s a lot out there. We take so much medication to try and fix this. In the pleistocene this didn"t exist: our bodies are suited for then. The second class is drugs for ulcers: ulcers are caused from stress, we are clearly more stressed today, although it seems that we had more reasons to be stressed in the pleistocene. The third class is drugs to deal with depression. We are being manipulated by food manufacturers because they exploit this need. It doesn"t seem that there"s a good match between today and the pleistocene. Somewhere along the line, food got more plentiful, sweet and fatty. When you look at the organisms that try and kill us/make us sick says a lot about adaptations.
