Dieting: A Growing Problem (Evolution Unit Task)

This person wants to become skinny, so she is thinking about dieting.  Evolutionary biology can be used to make informed decisions by trying to convince people that dieting is not the solution to becoming the natural selection of society. So since, some scientists argue that our genes have not caught up with this dietary divergence, it could be causing orcontributing to chronic diseases, such as cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes, and obesity, that we see today, so it is important to advise parents to manage their weight and health so that their kids will not suffer from any chronic illnesses like obesity.

With the many issues of dieting, it makes people think differently of themselves. It can make people feel as if they are not worthy enough for society as they view themselves differently either due to the views of society or of their own as they see their flaws. Regarding this issue however Natural Selection has been something that has made people select which traits they want for themselves and for their offspring so they change to be the ideal person that society wants them to be. Sexual Selection also makes people change themselves so they can be considered attractive to others, since some people get together with people they are sexually attracted to. In some studies, researchers point out that many people diet for their health and sometimes to look like their celebrity idols or models because of their looks. They think that dieting is good for them because they want to look like a certain way to please people/society and to help them be selected for mating and to easily get into...

A person trying to figure out their diet.   The problem with dieting is that people use dieting as a way to become the body type that their society wants them to be. Scientists can use natural selection, a mechanism of evolutionary biology theory, to understand this problem. Since being the natural selection means that one is the most adapted to their environment, then that means the people who look like society's ideal body type are the natural selection out of everyone in their society. Scientists can further go into comprehending the reason through finding which case of natural selection is the most applicated to the reason why people diet, which is sexual selection. Sexual selection tells scientists that people are using dieting not only to become society's natural selection but the ideal partner for someone to get into a relationship with. Since our society has revolutionized to concerning our appearance affects the way people like us, society has mad...

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