Unhappy meal: How our need to detect stress may have shaped our preferences for taste

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 746-751

  Yun, Anthony J ^a   Doux, John D ^a  

^a Technology of ce Palo Alto   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; ESSENTIAL FATTY ACID; MINERAL; SATURATED FATTY ACID; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SUGAR; UNSATURATED FATTY ACID; VITAMIN;

AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; DEHYDRATION; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; ENERGY; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FOOD CHAIN; FOOD INTAKE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; LIVESTOCK; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRESS; SWEETNESS; TASTE PREFERENCE; VEGETABLE;

AGRICULTURE; EATING; EVOLUTION; FOOD PREFERENCES; HAPPINESS; HUMANS; STRESS; TASTE; VEGETABLES; XENOBIOTICS;

EID: 34547844169     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2007.02.007     Document Type: Article

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