Why Our Brains Love Junk Food
Hank explains the scientific reasons behind why we humans generally prefer to eat donut hamburgers to carrots. Like SciShow: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Follow SciShow: http://www.twitter.com/...
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Carrots or french fries. How are you feeling about this choice And be honest really which would you rather eat? That's what I thought. Humans love fat and carbohydrates. Why? Because they have a lot of energy in them and energy is what we need to do all of the stuff that we humans do. But we're omnivores, we can get our energy from meat, grains, vegetables, nuts, tubers, fruit we are extremely versatile animal compared to like a cow which is pretty much stuck eating grass or a lion which has no business eating anything other than raw meat. So we can get calories from a bunch of different kinds of foods Why - at a very basic level do we really just wanna eat fat and carbs? Well, it has a lot to do apparently with our evolutionary history. Le...
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Carrots or french fries. How are you feeling about this choice And be honest really which would you rather eat? That's what I thought. Humans love fat and carbohydrates. Why? Because they have a lot of energy in them and energy is what we need to do all of the stuff that we humans do. But we're omnivores, we can get our energy from meat, grains, vegetables, nuts, tubers, fruit we are extremely versatile animal compared to like a cow which is pretty much stuck eating grass or a lion which has no business eating anything other than raw meat. So we can get calories from a bunch of different kinds of foods Why - at a very basic level do we really just wanna eat fat and carbs? Well, it has a lot to do apparently with our evolutionary history. Le...
