Maybe we’re hard-wired for calorific foods
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High-calorie foods were vital for providing energy to our hunter-gatherer ancestors, potentially even fuelling modern human brain development.
Although the world was vastly different then, a new study published in the journal Science Advances demonstrates how an inherent survival-driven preference for these foods may still be hardwired into our brains.
Published by Cosmos.