What is the ultimate explanation for modern human preference for fatty foods?
a. When we eat fatty foods, taste receptors on our tongue are stimulated, sending an action potential to our brain
triggering the "do-it-again" centers. Fatty foods have nine calories per gram, unlike carbohydrates and proteins, which
have four calories
b. per gram, and in our environment we need to maximize our caloric intake in order to maximize our fitness.
c. Ancestral humans who preferred fatty foods were less likely to starve, leaving more offspring in the next generation.
d. We do not actually prefer fatty foods; we prefer sugary foods.
e. We like the way that lipid-rich foods taste.
Ans: c. Ancestral humans who preferred fatty foods were less likely to starve, leaving more offspring in the next generation.
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