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How Your Genes Influence Your Favorite Foods
https://www.verywellhealth.com/genetics ... dy-6504116
A new study suggests that our taste preferences might be more linked to our genes than previously thought.
Brain-related factors might also play a role, especially for people who prefer high-calorie foods.
Understanding that our taste preferences are not completely under our control can help us make healthy choices that foster a satisfying, positive relationship with food.

If you turn up your nose at bananas and love a glass of bold red wine, it might have more to do with your genes than you think. And it might not be easy to change.

We already know that our food preferences are rooted in our culture. For example, one study found that cultural differences influenced how much people enjoy the appearance, aroma, taste, and texture of different foods.1

Now, new data published in Nature Communications suggests that our genetics may have a very big influence on the foods we like and dislike.2

https://www.verywellhealth.com/genetics ... dy-6504116

Is Morality Genetic?
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog ... ty-genetic#:~
Many psychological and behavioral outcomes once believed to be transmitted socially may in fact be under strong genetic control.
Moral values tend to be self-serving and are calibrated to one's sexual strategy.
New research suggests that moral values are inherited rather than learned.


Where do your moral values come from? The intuitive answer—and a popular assumption both at large and within the field of psychology—is that you learn morality from your culture, usually by way of parental, peer, and institutional influences. Psychological theorists from Freud on have endorsed this idea. We therefore routinely assume that differences in moral positions between people are the result of their different upbringing, social circumstances, and experiences.


Either way, the fact remains that many things we used to believe are the product of upbringing and social environment are in fact under the strong control of our genetic inheritance.

One intriguing issue where old notions appear due for a revision is morality. For years, researchers and laypeople alike assumed that various moral sentiments are transmitted across generations socially—by environments' messaging, through rules that parents establish for their kids, through socialization agents such as teachers and the media, and through children’s modeling of the above.

Veritas Aequitas wrote: ↑Thu Dec 22, 2022 10:41 am

How Your Genes Influence Your Favorite Foods
https://www.verywellhealth.com/genetics ... dy-6504116
A new study suggests that our taste preferences might be more linked to our genes than previously thought.
Brain-related factors might also play a role, especially for people who prefer high-calorie foods.
Understanding that our taste preferences are not completely under our control can help us make healthy choices that foster a satisfying, positive relationship with food.

Genes are a matter of fact.

Morality?

Veritas Aequitas wrote: ↑Thu Dec 22, 2022 10:42 am
It is likely our genetics [a matter of fact] may have a very big influence on our moral competences?

Harbal wrote: ↑Thu Dec 22, 2022 6:50 pm

Veritas Aequitas wrote: ↑Thu Dec 22, 2022 10:42 am
It is likely our genetics [a matter of fact] may have a very big influence on our moral competences?

So what?

Impenitent wrote: ↑Thu Dec 22, 2022 7:04 pm if it due to your genetics, you had no choice in the matter...
-Imp

Veritas Aequitas wrote: ↑Fri Dec 23, 2022 4:47 am
The 'What' is, people like Peter Holmes and his likes insist morality cannot be objective, i.e. they dogmatically view morality from a narrow perspective based opinions, beliefs and judgments of rightness or wrongness.


In contrast I believe Morality is objective and based on a matter of fact, i.e. reducible to genes and definitely neural algorithms that activate moral elements.

Veritas Aequitas wrote: ↑Thu Dec 22, 2022 10:41 am

How Your Genes Influence Your Favorite Foods
https://www.verywellhealth.com/genetics ... dy-6504116
A new study suggests that our taste preferences might be more linked to our genes than previously thought.
Brain-related factors might also play a role, especially for people who prefer high-calorie foods.
Understanding that our taste preferences are not completely under our control can help us make healthy choices that foster a satisfying, positive relationship with food.

Genes are a matter of fact.

Morality?

FlashDangerpants wrote: ↑Fri Dec 23, 2022 3:55 pm

Veritas Aequitas wrote: ↑Thu Dec 22, 2022 10:41 am

How Your Genes Influence Your Favorite Foods
https://www.verywellhealth.com/genetics ... dy-6504116
A new study suggests that our taste preferences might be more linked to our genes than previously thought.
Brain-related factors might also play a role, especially for people who prefer high-calorie foods.
Understanding that our taste preferences are not completely under our control can help us make healthy choices that foster a satisfying, positive relationship with food.

Genes are a matter of fact.

Morality?

There's nothing "right" or "true" or "good" about having a genetic disposition to enjoy high fat, salt and sugar content in your food.

You can't turn an is into a yum any more than you can turn it into an ought because facts and values don't convert that way.

Impenitent wrote: ↑Fri Dec 23, 2022 4:10 pm genetics are responsible for an individual's allergies...

when one sneezes at morality, is it genetically influenced?

-Imp

Walker wrote: ↑Fri Dec 23, 2022 4:43 pm

Impenitent wrote: ↑Fri Dec 23, 2022 4:10 pm genetics are responsible for an individual's allergies...

when one sneezes at morality, is it genetically influenced?

-Imp

I've heard there are folks who say that if you have an allergy, then God is Evil for making you suffer.

Oh yes. There are people who think that. They walk amongst us.

They are usually the people of the Ilk who don't believe in God, and of course that is their way of mocking those who do believe in God in the way that God believers think that God must be believed in. Uh huh.