Food Prefermece

Question 1

Why do we have food preferences

Answer 1

It is an adaptive behaviour which increases our chances of survival and is inherited

Question 2

What has been gentically bred into using

Answer 2

A varied diet which is high in energy and nutrients and avaoidance of toxic food

Question 3

Why do we have a preference to set food

Answer 3

They have a high large amount of calorie so provide large amounts of energy they are rarely poisonous and indicate safely so they are easily accessible

Question 4

What happens to those with a preference to sweet food

Answer 4

Evolutionary they are more likely to survive and reproduce passing on the genetic pretence for sweet food

Question 5

Why does meat help our survival

Answer 5

Packed with high proportion of calories amino acids minerals and protein which help supplement a low calorie based dietary

Question 6

What does Meat add to our diet

Answer 6

Adds a variety of nutrients and a balanced diet which increases our chances of survivalists

Question 7

Why is meat genetically inbred into us

Answer 7

Since it provides a survival advantage preference for meat is genetically inbred

Question 8

What are we born with taste aversion and why

Answer 8

Taste aversion to bigger food as they are more likely to be toxic compared to other food

Question 9

Why are we born with such taste aversion s

Answer 9

Helps us quickly identify and avoid food that may be toxic and rapidly form taste aversion to food that has made us sick previously so that we don’t become toxic ages

Question 10

What did Garcia do

Answer 10

Have food to rats and placed them through radiation which made them sick
Tried to feed them again but they refused

Question 11

What is neophobia

Answer 11

It is the general fear of eating new food which may be unfammiliar

Question 12

Why do we have neophobia

Answer 12

Protects animals from consuming poisoned harmful substances which is new and unfammiliar so less likely to consume substances that are toxic which may lead to fret

Question 13

How do we state our neophobia

Answer 13

Individuals have individual expectation of what food should look like and smell like with food that doesn’t fall into this category is rejected and we have an evolutionary drive to do so

Question 14

Research preference for sweet food

Answer 14

Newborn babies indicate pleasure for sweet food and disgust for bitter food indicated by facial expression

Question 15

What does this show

Answer 15

That preferences for sweet food must be genetically inbred into us

Question 16

What is the physical research

Answer 16

That there is specific tongue receptors which are used for detecting sweet food which are more sensitive this shows we have evolved readily to taste food

Question 17

What do individual differences in taste aversion research

Answer 17

Genetic variation among human in our ability to taste prop a bitter chemical in food
Some people cannot taste any prop whereas some people are very sensitive to pop they are super tasters

Question 18

Why does this refute

Answer 18

Evolutionary explanation as this taste aversion should be unciversal ability however this is not the case as some people are not as sensitive to prop therefore isn’t crucial to survival

Question 19

Why is neophobia maladaptive

Answer 19

Because of their neophobia some children are unwilling to choose new food that may be of a nutritional value so eat inadequate nutritional diet

Question 20

What is the Australian study

Answer 20

Neophobia is associated with poorer diet quality in children
this shown modern day environment where children are neophobia hinders their ability to eat a balanced healthy diet
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so they are disadvantage
Decreases chances of survival

Question 21

Why is evolutionary behaviour deterministic

Answer 21

It states hat our eating behaviour is determined by our past and ignores he role of free will and that decisions of what we eat are affects by our though and social influences

Question 22

Give an example

Answer 22

For example people with health concerns will be likely to avoid sugary food due to the increase risk of developing diabetes despite the evolutionary urge to eat sugary food
Likewise those that are Hindus may avoid to eat meat in attempt to follow religious beliefs despite shaving an evolutionary irgw to consume meat
Therefore ignoring mediating factors