Download or read book The Effect of Social Pressure on Eating Habits of College Students written by Dawn Wilcox and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Social Influences on Eating written by C. Peter Herman and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-09-05 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how the social environment affects food choices and intake, and documents the extent to which people are unaware of the significant impact of social factors on their eating. The authors take a unique approach to studying eating behaviors in ordinary circumstances, presenting a theory of normal eating that highlights social influences independent of physiological and taste factors. Among the topics discussed: Modeling of food intake and food choice Consumption stereotypes and impression management Research design, methodology, and ethics of studying eating behaviors What happens when we overeat? Effects of social eating Social Influences on Eating is a useful reference for psychologists and researchers studying food and nutritional psychology, challenging commonly held assumptions about the dynamics of food choice and intake in order to promote a better understanding of the power of social influence on all forms of behavior.
Download or read book Not Eating Enough written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1995-09-01 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eating enough food to meet nutritional needs and maintain good health and good performance in all aspects of lifeâ€"both at home and on the jobâ€"is important for all of us throughout our lives. For military personnel, however, this presents a special challenge. Although soldiers typically have a number of options for eating when stationed on a base, in the field during missions their meals come in the form of operational rations. Unfortunately, military personnel in training and field operations often do not eat their rations in the amounts needed to ensure that they meet their energy and nutrient requirements and consequently lose weight and potentially risk loss of effectiveness both in physical and cognitive performance. This book contains 20 chapters by military and nonmilitary scientists from such fields as food science, food marketing and engineering, nutrition, physiology, psychology, and various medical specialties. Although described within a context of military tasks, the committee's conclusions and recommendations have wide-reaching implications for people who find that job-related stress changes their eating habits.
Download or read book The Influence of Social Environment on Eating Behaviors of African American and Native American College Students written by Margaret Toston Sheridan and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Social Psychology of Eating written by Patrizia Catellani and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-06-29 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our eating decisions are guided by several psychological dimensions: cognitive, emotional, value-based, social, and behavioural. The social psychology of eating helps us understand these dimensions and how we can promote healthy and sustainable eating to improve people's wellbeing. What is most important in deciding what we want to eat? What drives people to go vegan? Do we tend to eat more when we are nervous? Does it change our behavior when we sit at the table with others? Why do we put off starting the diet until the next week? How does online and offline communication influence our eating behaviour? Is it possible to help people change their eating habits thanks to artificial intelligence? These and other questions are answered in this book, with up-to-date literature references and pointers to the most promising developments in the field. An essential text for undergraduate and graduate students, as well as researchers in the fields of psychology and nutrition.
Download or read book Social Determinants of Health written by Richard G. Wilkinson and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2003 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poorer people live shorter lives and suffer higher levels of ill health than the more affluent in society, and this disparity highlights the sensitivity of human health to socio-economic factors. This booklet examines this social gradient in health and explains how psychological and social influences affect physical health and longevity. It also considers the role of public policy in promoting a social environment that is more conducive to better health. Topics discussed include: stress, early childhood health, social exclusion, work, unemployment and job insecurity, social support networks, the effects of alcohol and other drug addictions, food and nutrition, and healthier transport systems.
Download or read book Covid 19 And Its Effects On Eating Behaviors And Stress In The College Student Population written by Kiersten Michele Quinn and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this study is to describe 1) Which eating habits were impacted by COVID-19 regulation and policy changes in Kent State University students, 2) How were eating habits impacted by COVID-19 regulation and policy changes in KSU students and 3) Have stress levels increased by COVID-19 regulation and policy changes in KSU students. There were 272 participants were male and female students at Kent State University who were >=18 years and enrolled in undergraduate classes from spring 2020-spring 2021. Exclusion criteria included those that were >26 years old, those previously diagnosed with an eating disorder, and those in a graduate or Ph.D. programs. This study is a descriptive study that distributed an electronic survey by email to the participants. The survey included eight demographic questions, 22 eating behavior questions, and 11 stress questions. Current study found that 51% (32.1±3.87) of student's had high stress from March 2020-now. It was also seen that from March 2020-May 2021 students reported increased consumption of processed and sugary foods, as well as increased snacking, snacking due to boredom, and portion size in comparison to now. These findings suggest that COVID-19 regulations and policies had an impact on KSU students eating behaviors and increased stress. Increased stress and negative eating habits due to COVID-19 regulations and policies long term effects are unknown and studies should be done to further investigate.
Download or read book Disease Control Priorities Third Edition Volume 8 written by Donald A. P. Bundy and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2017-11-20 with total page 977 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More children born today will survive to adulthood than at any time in history. It is now time to emphasize health and development in middle childhood and adolescence--developmental phases that are critical to health in adulthood and the next generation. Child and Adolescent Health and Development explores the benefits that accrue from sustained and targeted interventions across the first two decades of life. The volume outlines the investment case for effective, costed, and scalable interventions for low-resource settings, emphasizing the cross-sectoral role of education. This evidence base can guide policy makers in prioritizing actions to promote survival, health, cognition, and physical growth throughout childhood and adolescence.
Download or read book America s Eating Habits written by Elizabeth Frazão and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Eating Behaviors and Body Composition Among College Freshman written by Amelia Elizabeth McMullen Sancilio and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As new college students become autonomous eaters, they may independently develop behaviors related to food that fulfill both biological and cultural purposes. I report here on the results of a biocultural, mixed-methods study of 21 students' first term of college residence. Interview data and anthropometric measurements permit exploration of the interaction between a shift in participants' cultural surroundings, physical condition, and food-related thoughts and actions. Participants' goals of fulfilling their student responsibilities and maintaining social relationships predominantly dictated when, where, and what they ate, while their level of satisfaction with these behaviors was associated with whether their actions were consistent with personal definitions of "healthy." Participants who demonstrated a conscious effort to eat in a healthy manner generally expressed the highest satisfaction with their food-related behaviors, but did not all experience similar changes in their physical conditions. Because participants' goals influenced their satisfaction with their eating behaviors, they may affect participants' behaviors in the future. Continued research should investigate how the goals that individuals articulate but do not act on during this period in their life course may influence their health and behaviors later in their lives.
Download or read book Beyond the Freshman 15 Exploring the Contextual Psychosocial and Behavioral Risk Protective Factors Associated with Obesity Among U S College Students written by Chia-Hsin Emily Cheng and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The growing prevalence of obesity among college-attending young adults is a major public health issue. Over one-third of U.S. college students are either overweight (23.3%) or obese (16.3%) (ACHA, 2017). This is problematic because overweight status during young adulthood is predictive of obesity in later life (Zheng et al., 2017). Thus, overweight and obese young adults face greater risk of developing chronic diseases, including more than half of the 15 leading causes of death in the U.S. The college milieu may be key to understanding obesity because it creates a distinct psychosocial context and shapes exposure to unique risks for young adults. Moreover, college students experience greater psychological distress compared to the general population, perhaps due to the stress associated with increased social and academic pressures. Given that distress has been linked with obesity and maladaptive health behaviors in prior research, enhancing psychological well-being may be an effective strategy to address the rising rates of obesity among college students. However, we still know relatively little about the distinct psychosocial and contextual risk and protective factors among this population. The purpose of this dissertation is to evaluate the contextual, psychosocial, and behavioral factors associated with obesity among college students at an ethnically diverse public university in Southern California. This will be investigated in three studies: Study 1 examines the extent to which social context and psychological distress are associated with increased odds of obesity among college students. Study 2 evaluates the role of lifestyle health behaviors in the relationship between distress and obesity. Study 3 assesses the ways that social relationships and eating habits shape comorbidity patterns in psychological distress and obesity among college students; a latent variable structural model is also used to explore these relationships. Findings from this dissertation may contribute to the limited, but growing body of literature on the nuanced relationship between psychological distress and obesity among college students. In addition, understanding how the college context distinguishes the health of this population may help campuses to create more tailored prevention and intervention programs that account for these psychosocial and contextual risk factors.
Download or read book Social Cognititve Theory and Nutrition Behavior written by Dara Blomain and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This quasi-experimental study uses a pre-test and post-test design approach to determine the affect a 10-week introductory nutrition course had on dietary intake of students who completed the course, whether the course influenced students' mean social cognitive theory construct scores, whether the course influenced students' mean fruit, vegetable, and fiber intake, and examined if there was a relationship between mean social cognitive theory construct scores and dietary intake. Dietary behavior change interventions are needed among college students, as this is a period of excess weight gain and poor dietary behaviors. While weight gain and poor eating habits and behaviors have been identified as common undertakings by college students, little is known about the effectiveness of dietary behavior change among college students after the completion of an introductory nutrition course. Furthermore, there is not any existing literature to indicate if the completion of a short-term, 10-week dietary behavior change course can change students' dietary habits and behaviors. Dietary behavior change interventions rooted in Social Cognitive Theory (SCT) have been shown to have one of the greatest impacts on changing dietary behaviors among college students. The 10-week introductory nutrition course in this study included a dietary behavior change intervention that was rooted in SCT, making it desirable to elicit dietary behavior change. Two introductory nutrition course sections (NTD 303 (01) & NTD 303 (02)) were employed for this study, which was carried out in the Spring semester, 2016. Enrollment in each of the sections was open to all students who were enrolled in the university at that time. It was the researcher's hope that the results of this study would highlight the importance of making an introductory nutrition course with a dietary behavior change intervention, modeled after the SCT, a mandatory component of the undergraduate college curriculum in order to improve college students' dietary intake, habits, behaviors, and beliefs.
Download or read book Miscellaneous Publication written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Slim by Design written by Brian Wansink and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-09-23 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Slim by Design, leading behavioral economist, food psychologist, and bestselling author Brian Wansink introduces groundbreaking solutions for designing our most common spaces—schools, restaurants, grocery stores, and home kitchens, among others—in order to make positive changes in how we approach and manage our diets. Anyone familiar with Wansink’s Mindless Eating knows this is not a typical diet book. Wansink shares his scientific approach to eating, providing insight and information, so we can all make better choices when it comes to food. The pioneer of the Small Plate Movement, Brian Wansink presents compelling research conducted at the Food and Brand Lab at Cornell University by way of cartoons, drawings, charts, graphs, floor plans, and more. Slim by Design offers innovative ways to make healthy eating mindlessly easy.
Download or read book Proceedings of National Nutrition Education Conference November 2 4 1971 Washington D C written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Perceived Availability and Attitudes Towards Healthy Eating Among College Students written by Evelyn N. Franco and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this research is to examine gender, ethnicity, and place of residence as potential predictors of the perceived availability and attitudes of healthy eating among college students. It is important to study eating habits in college students especially for those who are transitioning to a more independent lifestyle shortly after leaving a parents home. These young adults who become more independent and autonomous may not have the acquired skills or resources needed for living on their own (Brunt & Rhee, 2007). With society increasing in ethnic diversity, it is crucial to understand ethnic differences and how they can influence college students' perceived availability and attitudes towards healthy eating (Freedman, 2010). This study proposed six different hypothesis: (1) It was predicted that students who live off campus living independently or living with their family would have more positive attitudes towards healthy eating than students who lived on campus, (2) those students who lived off campus living independently or living with their family would also perceive more availability of healthy eating than students who lived on campus, (3) Caucasian students would have more positive attitudes towards healthy eating than non-Caucasian students, (4) female students would have more positive attitudes towards healthy eating compared to male students, (5) positive attitudes toward healthy eating would predict positive eating behaviors, and (6) there would be a positive correlation between parents' and significant others' attitudes towards healthful eating and participants attitudes towards healthy eating. In addition to these hypotheses, this study attempted to explore possible interaction effects between gender and ethnicity on eating attitudes and eating behaviors, but none were found. A total of 276 college students from various Connecticut universities took a 40-minute online questionnaire that derived from the original Project EAT-II survey. Major findings from this study concluded that there were residency differences, those students who reported living off campus independently had greater positive attitudes towards healthy eating than from those students who reported living on campus. Moreover, another major finding was that positive eating attitudes did predict eating behaviors. Recommendations for future research in psychological research would be to assess the longitudinal effects of perceived availability and attitudes towards healthy eating among college students since it has been found that college years are very much influential years for individuals as their dietary habits may often change (Freedman, 2010). It will also be beneficial for future research to focus on the mechanisms that impact positive attitudes to predict positive eating behaviors.
Download or read book Eating in the Absence of Hunger in College Students written by Taylor Goett and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The body is capable of regulating hunger in several ways. Some of these hunger regulation methods are innate, such as genetics, and some, such as the responses to stress and to the smell of food, are innate but can be affected by body conditions such as BMI and physical activity. Further, some hunger regulation methods stem from learned behaviors originating from cultural pressures or parenting styles. These latter regulation methods for hunger can be grouped into the categories: emotion, environment, and physical. The factors that regulate hunger can also influence the incidence of disordered eating, such as eating in the absence of hunger (EAH). Eating in the absence of hunger can occur in one of two scenarios, continuous EAH or beginning EAH. College students are at a particularly high risk for EAH and weight gain due to stress, social pressures, and the constant availability of energy dense and nutrient poor food options. The purpose of this study is to validate a modified EAH-C survey in college students and to discover which of the three latent factors (emotion, environment, physical) best predicts continual and beginning EAH. To do so, a modified EAH-C survey, with additional demographic components, was administered to students at a major southwest university. This survey contained two questions, one each for continuing and beginning EAH, regarding 14 factors related to emotional, physical, or environmental reasons that may trigger EAH. The results from this study revealed that the continual and beginning EAH surveys displayed good internal consistency reliability. We found that for beginning and continuing EAH, although emotion is the strongest predictor of EAH, all three latent factors are significant predictors of EAH. In addition, we found that environmental factors had the greatest influence on an individual's likelihood to continue to eat in the absence of hunger. Due to statistical abnormalities and differing numbers of factors in each category, we were unable to determine which of the three factors exerted the greatest influence on an individual's likelihood to begin eating in the absence of hunger. These results can be utilized to develop educational tools aimed at reducing EAH in college students, and ultimately reducing the likelihood for unhealthy weight gain and health complications related to obesity.
