How might an evolutionary psychologist explain the fact that people tend to enjoy high-fat food?
A) When food was scarce in our ancestral past, people who ate high-fat food tended to obtain the calories that they needed to survive and, ultimately, reproduce.
B) High-fat food activates areas in the brain corresponding to reward.
C) Over one's lifetime, many interpersonal relationships revolve around eating these "comfort" food items.
D) Although eating high-fat food resulted in great mortality rates among our ancestors, the availability of medication today allows people to consume larger amounts of high-fat food.
A) When food was scarce in our ancestral past, people who ate high-fat food tended to obtain the calories that they needed to survive and, ultimately, reproduce.
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