ipl-logo

Unhealthy Eating Case Study

1524 Words7 Pages

Written Assignment Unit 2 by Elie Arslan Unhealthy eating or poor diet is a health behavior that I found myself engaging in the past two years. Since my promotion to a Quality Manager position, I work and travel a lot to audit different clinical suppliers domestically and internationally. Unfortunately, food is sometimes the last thing I think about when I am working. When I wake up in the morning, I skip breakfast and leave home to start work at 7:30 am. When I arrive at work, my executive assistant has a fresh cup of coffee ready for me with one cream and two sugar packets. I check emails for about half an hour to an hour and then I am either attending management meetings or giving presentations until lunchtime. My employer provides lunch …show more content…

It refers to plans to keep the behavior in the face of possibilities that arise during behavioral enactment like obstacles. Coping requires dealing with the source of stress. The source of stress in my situation is unhealthy eating. In addition, coping involves three choices of action: confrontation, compromise and withdrawal. (Weber, 1991) I think the most effective way of coping with unhealthy eating is compromise. When there is a compromise, each party in the conflict, in my case it is my wife and myself, gains something and sacrifices something. My wife and I agreed that if I eat vegetables and less fat for dinner, she will watch an action or science fiction movie that I like. Compromising works when one is coping with an unhealthy …show more content…

It consists of 5 stages: pre-contemplation where one is not intending to make any changes, contemplation where one is considering a change, preparation where one is making small changes, action where a person is actively engaging in a new behavior and maintenance where one is sustaining the change over a period of time. These stages do not necessarily occur in a linear fashion, instead the behavior change is described as dynamic. In Unit 2 reading Dr. Jane Ogden (2017) mentioned, “The stages-of-change model has been applied to several health-related behaviors, such as smoking, alcohol use, exercise and screening behavior.” The stages of change model are a simple and useful approach to describe a behavior and frame ways or methods in which to alter this behavior. In my case, since I have a weak unhealthy snacking habit, it is ideal for me to form a plan using the stages of change model. I contemplate changing my unhealthy diet of snaking late at night and skipping breakfast every day. I am preparing by having a small sandwich in the morning with some orange juice and my action is to have small snacks throughout the day to prevent me from eating unhealthy late at night. I know that my challenge from the stages of change model will be maintaining the change over time. I plan to eat fewer snacks with self-regulation and pre-occupy myself with a new activity such as reading a book or

Show More
Related
514 Words | 3 Pages

In this book, Michael Polland highlights the main issues in today’s “Western Diet,” breaking down the factors contributing to our unhealthy food consumption. Nutritionism is an idea that we are constantly surrounded by, but how much of it do you really understand? How much of it is truth, and how much is simply manipulation? If you were to look back in time, you’d see the progression of the modern meal, straying further and further from actual food itself.

Read More
877 Words | 4 Pages

Obesity is a prevalent issue within the United States. “According to the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES) (2009-2010), approximately 69% of adults are overweight or obese, with more than 78 million adult Americans considered obese”. Today’s society is inundated with a firestorm of information regarding the types of foods that are healthy and will decrease obesity. The most prominent voices in today’s food culture, primarily the wholesome-food movement, believe eating unprocessed food is the only way to live long, healthy lives free of obesity. However, journalist David H. Freedman argues that individuals should not fall prey to these false misconceptions.

Read More
677 Words | 3 Pages

In the first article “Resisting the Moralization of Eating”, by Mary Maxfeild she ¬argues many things against the other author Michael Pollan about how we need to change how the American people eat, and how the government needs to handle obesity better in the United States. This portrays to the other article “Escape from the Western Diet” by Michael Pollan in many ways, as well as many challenges. “The challenge we face today is figuring out how to escape the worst elements of the Western diet and lifestyle without going back to the bush” (Pollan 437). In this paper I will go over many subtopics including: Obesity, health, and food.

Read More
683 Words | 3 Pages

Death is always associated with the occurrences of wars. No matter what, there is no escaping the fact that people will die in battle. Throughout the book The Things They Carried there are scenes of extreme violence, and heart crushing deaths. Witnessing someone you know being killed, or even killing someone you do not know is very traumatizing to a person and their life, but it's war and that is just how it is. Tim O’Brien uses many examples from the war for his story to emphasise the theme of Death, and violence and that no matter what it is no one's fault, and everyone fault.

Read More
1162 Words | 5 Pages

There are more ways to shun obesity. Michael Pollan, who wrote “Escape from the western diet”, claims that the fast food industry are one of the main reasons why the people struggle with their health. He believes that the processed food we consume gives us harmful deceases. Pollan urges us to listen to his words to avoid the “Western diet”, he preaches that this is main cause of obesity, yet he does not give concrete information. I disagree with Pollan’s view that the food industry is the main cause of our health problems because although Pollan gives us great arguments he does not dive in into greater detail.

Read More
1000 Words | 4 Pages

This shows the impact on how important it is to make a priority in eating and making well balanced meals. Being able to see the history in how eating habits have changed generation to generation gives an insight on what we need to change. Many people such as Mark never ate a fresh vegetable until 19 years old. This shows that there is a big gap in eating balanced and healthy meals because of the mass production of frozen and canned foods. Mark Stated that, “it cut down on the variety of food we ate” (Mark Bittman 2007 Ted Talk, transcript 10:17).

Read More
1739 Words | 7 Pages

On a differing take on the solution, “Escape from the Western Diet” by Michael Pollan provides the complete change of our diet and way of life based around cooking and eating meals. however creates a more powerful and logical argument against the “Western Diet” in his article, He uses a combination of his credibility from his publications on health and foods, evidence against the practices of the medical community, along with his solution to the issue of obesity to create an article that draws in audience’s emotions and rationale. Pollan’s strongest points in his article was the use of credibility and his ability to bring logic and reason to most of his points against medical society and the publics solution to obesity. Pollan comes in with a stronger

Read More
1218 Words | 5 Pages

This appeals to our physiological needs because naturally, humans need to eat food and to hear from a professional that there are other influences outside of food that are giving cause to the obesity crisis gives Americans a slight sigh of relief when it comes to the degree of toxicity of our foods. Furthermore, that people eat a more wholesome diet versus those that do not, tend to be healthier than that live on fast and processed foods,there are also stark differences to recognize between these classes that should be taken into account as well such as the tendency to engage in exercise, air quality, and other health considerations such as smoking and

Read More
683 Words | 3 Pages

Eating Healthy Michael Pollan, a health food spokesperson, made some interesting critiques on how he believes that there is an American paradox such as, “a notably unhealthy population preoccupied with… the idea of eating healthy” (Maxfield, 442). The idea taken from Michael Pollan’s quote is that he believes the definition of healthy eating has more to do with how it is “driven by a well-funded corporate machine” (Maxfield, 442). He is also claiming that the food industry is benefiting on our lack of knowledge on how to eat properly when it comes to being healthy. In her article Food as Thought: Resisting the Moralization of Eating, Mary Maxfield directly attacked Pollan’s claims, pointing out the hypocrisy in his words because he is sharing

Read More
867 Words | 4 Pages

Every bite and every sip and every meal or course one consume determine how long each of the cells in your body lives its life. One of the most amazing thing that this planet own is the food we all love to share and enjoy. There are various foods around the world and they are amazing but they are also unhealthy. The food is so amazing temps one to have more and more because of how good and tasty it is no matter how unhealthy it is. Mr. Michael Pollon describes the dangers of consuming too much of something and how it affects us by comparing and contrasting the republic of alcohol and fat while also using logos and ethos.

Read More
1760 Words | 8 Pages

“Let your food be your medicine and your medicine be your food” (Hardy, 2006). The Greeks followed this idea by the philosopher Hippocrates, but today’s society does not take the message seriously. A majority of people eat harmful foods and do not receive the nutrition they need to stay healthy. There are a number of reasons why nutrition is lacking. A lot of teens and college students eat snacks that are not healthy such as chips, pop, candy, etc.

Read More
817 Words | 4 Pages

Nutrition Topic: Nutrition Organization: Topically Specific Purpose: To inform my audience the importance of proper nutrition I. INTRODUCTION A. Attention getter: Did you know that more than two thirds of adults are considered to be overweight or obese in the United States? If obesity rates stay consistent, about 51% of the population by the year 2030 will be obese.

Read More
786 Words | 4 Pages

Basis of modern science of conflict is studies of German, Austrian, American sociologists of the 20th century: G.Simmel, L. Gumplowicz, D. Smalley, W. Sumner, R. Dahrendorf, Parsons. Conflict was recognized as normal social phenomenon. A number of biological, psychological, social and other factors inevitably generate conflict. Most scientists refer Georg Simmel to the founders of Theoretical conflictology.

Read More
2068 Words | 9 Pages

In recent years the topic of dieting has been extremely controversial. It is clear that diets do cause people to lose weight, but what are the effects after the diet is over? The daily argument over this topic is if dieting helps or if it is actually more damaging to those who engage in them. Despite the fact that diets help those overweight lose weight; dieting harms the body and causes weight gain in the long run. This is because dieting alters the body not knowing when to feel full leading to overeating as well as causing biological and physical damage.

Read More
904 Words | 4 Pages

In a perfect world we would all be eating the right food, exercising, sleeping well and just generally enjoying life. In the real world most of us manage a percentage of the healthy lifestyle and muddle through as best we can with the rest of it. Part of the problem is we are encouraged to think, mostly by the media, that we should be doing everything possible towards a healthy lifestyle, all of the time. For most of us this is just not possible.

Read More

More about Unhealthy Eating Case Study

Related Topics

Open Document