The research question on the above topic that the paper seeks to answer is how does student perceive weight lost? The research question looks at four most important ideas emerging from the topic that concerns how some students inaccurately perceive their weight. Inaccurate weight perception may affect their dietary patterns and their overall health wellbeing (Collins, Bentez, 2009). Inaccurate weight perception may lead to some obese students to ignore shedding off some pounds but continue to add weight. Individuals who misperceived their weight requirements for reduction feel they were at a more advantage than others their age yet they are at a higher risk of coronary illnesses as other corpulent patients. The final idea is that those who …show more content…
The psychological implications are that apart from foreshadowing obesity development, they also hamper the attempts to control and cut down weight. Combinations of environmental, psychological and biological attributes are responsible for obesity and many eating disorders. The psychological impacts such as anxiety and depression on an individual are dire and make the victims to find it harder to control their food consumption with poor physical exercise to maintain healthy weight. Eating food is actually a reactive behavior for copying by those who are already obese especially when they are anxious, sad, stressed, frustrated and lonely. Many overweight individuals therefore seem to be in constant cycle of emotional disturbance, with excess food uptake and weight increase. When the obese individuals feel emotionally disturbed, they resort to food to cope. Such act may lead to a dysphonic mood because of being unable to control stress. Consequently, the ensuing guilt may reactivate the cycle resulting into a constant trend of resorting to food in order to cope with stress. A part from anxiety and depression, there are other risks like practicing problematic eating tendencies that are mindless. The obese individuals may eat so frequently on foods …show more content…
Inaccurate weight perception may lead to extreme weight practice (EWP) that may lead to attempt to cut down weight or increase thus impacting a physical health problem. A research conducted on body weight perception in Mauritania among 180 teenagers half male and d females between 12 to 18 years show that 8.4% of the Mauritians of this age are obese (Bhurtun & Jeewon, 2013). The research however shows that once the obese victims had realized their weight problem, they tried to cut down weight through avoiding some fatty and high caloric
The problem behavior associated with individuals making bad food choices when presented with unhealthy food will need to be observed so that we may understand how to change this behavior as it is unhealthy and harmful to health overall. Are poor choices in different foods causing obesity? Making poor choices when it comes to food is an
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One factor of the freshman 15 is the student’s living environment. Students living on campus in residence halls are more prone to weight gain than students living at home with their parents or off campus (Provencher et al., 2009). This is due to the availability of food on campus at various universities that studies were held. While students living at home with their parents often have home cooked meals, often dining halls in college campuses serve food with an all-you-can eat buffet style, where students are free to eat as much as they like. Students living away from ...
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Obesity is a very complex condition as there are many physiological and psychological dimensions to it. The complications accompanying the disease are multiple and are associated with the increased risk of many other medical conditions. It is thought that we live in an obesogenic environment due to an interaction of environmental, developmental and cultural influences. With the main cause of the disorder thought to be due to a combination of a sedentary lifestyle accompanied by an increased consumption of poor quality food with a high calorie and sugar content. The lack of energy expenditure could be explained by many individuals working a large number of hours, most days of the week in jobs that require minimal physical activity and it is often difficult to accomplish the recommended ...
In order to take a sociological viewpoint into account when one examines obesity, first it is important to understand how obesity is recognized in current society. According to today’s news articles and magazines and advertisements and other mass media about health and healthy life, one can easily realize that a great number of people have an eagerness to be healthy. Also, one can assume through these mass media about health that everyone wants to be attractive, and they are even prone to transform their own behaviors to gain attractiveness. This is because most people live a life where social interaction is frequently required and must engage themselves into social interaction every day of their life. Therefore, based on these ideas and proofs throughout this mass media, obesity is regarded as one of the characteristics that is disgraceful and undesirable in society.
Many children who are obese are the targets of bullying from other children. Self-esteem can be greatly damaged from a disease that can be prevented. Having an obese or once obese person tell the stories of struggle, difficulties and how life is greatly impacted by not eating right and exercising could have a great influence on just how serious obesity is. In the academic journal, “Childhood obesity and Self-Esteem”, has found that there are social and emotional effects from childhood obesity. Other than just low self-esteem, obesity can lead to “Smoking and consuming alcohol” (Strauss 3) compared to children who are not obese. Preventing obesity could also decrease the rate of smoking and drinking in children underage. The more than one solution to how this can be done, for parents and students, for schools “Replacing vending machines containing unhealthy foods and drinks and replace with healthy items” (Green 4). This has been increasing in many schools and even colleges; Montgomery College has also taken the steps of changing the vending machine. Another resolution for schools is to “Provide quality daily physical education for all students. Be sure to select activities that are fun, challenging, and aerobic in nature” (Green
The human body requires the intake of food in order to function properly. The foods that we decide to eat has an effect on the ability to use are mind, are strength, and even how prone we are to getting sick or hurt. Eating to much of the wrong foods, with little or no exercise can cause the silent but deadly epidemic of obesity in children and in teens. In the past, obesity was just known as a condition that only affected adults. In this generation the youths are becoming more prone to obesity. In 1995 an average of 18 million children all around the world was categorized as being overweight (Rabbitt, Aifric, and Imelda Coyne 731). In a Childhood Obesity Interventions article it says that 17% (12.5 million) of children in the United States is considered to be obese (Rabbitt, Aifric, and Imelda Coyne 731). This outrageous number of overweight children in the world is almost tripled in 2010, where 43 million children under 5 are considered to be overweight (Rabbitt, Aifric, and Imelda Coyne 731). Another staggering statistic is more than 60% percent of the children that are classified as overweight before they reach puberty, will be overweight as they become adults (Rabbitt, Aifric, and Imelda Coyne 731). This leads us to the most stifling fact of there being 2.8 million people in the world that die from being overweight or obese each year (Rabbitt, Aifric, and Imelda Coyne 731). These shocking statistics show how dangerous obesity really is, and should urge everyone to fight against this epidemic.
In short, from this research, even though there are some errors and limitation in this research that is needs to be fixed. It can be stated that there are tight links between stress and food choice women make. Therefore, to reduce the number of obese people in our society, we should spread this knowledge and warn people to be careful of their food choice when they are stressed. So in the near future, less people are obese and obesity will no longer become a public health concern.
Health professionals can provide educational information to teach society the healthy issues behind a person’s weight as it health doesn’t depend on a person’s weight. 2.3 Scope The issues covered throughout this report are based on the weight centred paradigm and health at every size. The weight centred paradigm is basing your health status on your weight, wcp claims weight is controlled by the individual which is the complete opposite of the iceberg model. Heath at every size takes every aspect of health into consideration as it positions weight as a possible outcome of contributing behavioural factors.
Chronic stress may be a factor in cases of heart disease and obesity. Due to the type of hormones in the body being released or restricted Cholesterol levels have been known to increase in individuals with chronic stress. A person’s relationship with food can increase their chances of heart disease and obesity. When people are experiencing high levels of stress they may use food as a way to feel satisfied temporarily- whether they are hungry or not.
obesity is also associated with complications of pregnancy, menstrual irregularities, hirsutism, stress incontinence, increased surgical risk, and increased mortality (win@info.niddk.nih.gov). Not only does obesity affect the body physically but also emotionally. “One of the most painful aspects of obesity is the emotional suffering it causes” (WebMD). Psychological disorders such as depression are developed as a result of obesity. Many people are unaware of all the ...
Such emotions that can cause harm to an individual is depression and sadness. When an individual overconsumes food, the individual may express such emotions that causes harm to their health. Becoming addicted to food can harm the life of an individual as the emotions that are express from overconsuming food can easily affect their daily life. Such experience is normally shown in the life of a teen who loves food but chooses to ignore the consequences that comes along with the
Obesity occurs in all countries and it is one of the gravest problems in modern society. Obesity problems have become one matter of concern for individuals all around the world. What is more is that Obesity rates continue to rise all around the world. One of the chief causes is unhealthy diets. Obesity is also due to lack of exercise and lack of education and awareness. Therefore obesity has various effects including the risk of suffering from a range of health conditions, increased expenditure on health care and lack of self-esteem.