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Why Our Brains Love Junk Food
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Why Our Brains Love Junk Food
  • Published_at:2012-08-14
  • Category:Education
  • Channel:scishow
  • tags: scishow, science, biology, health, junk food, fat, carbohydrate, omnivore, calorie, evolution, evolve, australopithecus, homo habilis, brain, digestion, digestive system, fire, cook, meat, energy, vegetable, diet, pleasure, comfort food, sugar, nutrition
  • description: 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/scishow References Diet & the evolution of the earliest human ancestors - http://www.pnas.org/content/97/25/13506.full Australopithecus: Diet - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australopithicus#Diet Did cooking make us human? - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rf_OWun4Y04 scishow, science, biology, health, junk food, fat, carbohydrate, omnivore, calorie, evolution, evolve, australopithecus, homo habilis, brain, digestion, digestive system, fire, cook, meat, energy, vegetable, energy, diet, pleasure, comfort food, sugar, nutrition
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