The Tendency to Overeat When Food Is Plentiful

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Multiple Choice

The tendency to overeat when food is plentiful

• A) is a recent phenomenon that is associated with the luxury of having ample food.
• B) emerged in our prehistoric ancestors as an adaptive response to periods when
• Food was scarce.
• C) is greater in developed, than in developing, societies.
• D) is stronger in women than in men.

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Definitions:

Aromatic

Refers to chemicals that contain benzene rings, or similar ring structures, which are stable and have distinctive smells.

Antiaromatic

A term describing cyclic compounds that are unstable due to conjugated pi electrons disrupting the molecule’s planarity or symmetry.

Nonaromatic

Refers to compounds that do not have a conjugated system of electrons typical of aromatic compounds, lacking the distinctive stability and ring structure of benzene.

Allotropes

Different forms of the same element, with distinct physical and chemical properties, due to different arrangements of atoms or bonds (e.g., graphite and diamond are allotropes of carbon).