PSYC23H3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Distant Relatives, Polyvagal Theory, Gluconeogenesis
Document Summary
Applied science in the real world: doctors thinking about health policies that denies routine medica care to patients who are morbidly obese and who smoke to reduce health costs and promote better healthy living. 20% of our children are obese, and about the same % of adults are smoking. So why and how do kids fall into poor ses-gradient of health?-sources of early adversity. These are some of the mechanisms by which early adversity can occur. In this study the proposed that it might be work-stress related-supposedly and out-lately men do more work. Better living? (both men and women live better-yoga etc. ), natural selection? (women need to live longer, are more important- because need to pass on genes: evolution story-mortality of genes and aging: over the course of our lifetime, our. Dna accumulates mutations, and because the bodies repair system is not perfect, not everything is fixed.
