1. Attitudes to Food & Eating Behaviour

Bradley’s challenge due : 

Bradley’s challenge due Dazzle me!

Assessment 2: Due Thurs 15th Oct : 

Assessment 2: Due Thurs 15th Oct Research on: Evolutionary explanations for group displays of aggressive behaviours: Gang Culture (The knowledge).

Think for a moment… : 

Think for a moment… Do you have issues with food? Do you know someone who does? Where did you learn your eating habits? Do you think that it has something to do with your culture or peers? Does the media influence your eating habits? Tell me about your eating behaviours and habits….

What makes YOU eat? : 

What makes YOU eat? What factors influence your eating habits?

Unit 3-Final topic: Eating behaviour : 

Unit 3-Final topic: Eating behaviour Attitudes to food and eating +eval Explanations for success or failure of dieting +eval Neural mechanisms in eating and satiation + eval Evolutionary explanations for food preferences + eval Anorexia/Bulimia/Obesity + eval Today’s lesson: To outline and evaluate research studies into attitudes on food and eating behaviours

Eating behaviour: Attitudes to food and eating : 

Eating behaviour: Attitudes to food and eating There’s a problem when we start to use food to resolve underlying emotional issues Here, we cover the different explanations of attitudes to food and eating General video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hj44KmnNeZo

SLT as an explanation for food & eating behaviour : 

SLT as an explanation for food & eating behaviour Parental modelling: Observe behaviour of parents. Why parents? Because they bring the food and distribute it in the home Brown & Ogden: Consistent correlation between parents and children’s intake of snacks, eating motivations and body dissatisfaction. How eating habits are formed article: http://www.4teenweightloss.com/eatinghabits.html

SLT as explanation for eating behaviour evaluated : 

SLT as explanation for eating behaviour evaluated Supporting: Meyer & Gast: In Pps ages 10-12, there’s a significant positive correlation between peer influence and disordered eating. Supporting: Birch & Fisher: We can predict a daughter’s eating behaviour depending on the mother’s dietary restraint and mother’s perception of the risks to their children being over weight. Opposing: Attitudes to food are much more than social learning. Evolutionary explanations suggest that our preference for fatty & sweet foods is a results of adaptation.

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Media effects: Media has an impact on what people eat and their attitudes to certain foods. However, although media does play a role in educating people about healthy foods, income, age and other family circumstances dictate what people eat. 6 year old: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4319105.stm Boys: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4954616.stm

Cultural influences on eating behaviours: Do you feel eating pressure? : 

Cultural influences on eating behaviours: Do you feel eating pressure? British Caribbean Arab Asian African

Cultural influences: : 

Cultural influences: Body dissatisfaction: These can be due to: Ethnicity: Body dissatisfaction & consequent actions (I.e-bulimia/anorexia) tend to be more a characteristic of white women rather than black or Asian (Powell & Khan). This is confirmed by Ball & Kenardy who said that the longer women spent in Australia, the more they reported attitudes about eating similar to Australian women “Acculturation effect”. Social class: Body dissatisfaction, dieting behaviour and eating disorders more common in higher class individuals. (Dornbusch et al-out of 7000American adolescents, those who were higher class had greater desire to be thin and were more likely to diet to be thin compared to lower class adolescents.)

Evaluation of ethnicity as an explanation for eating behaviour : 

Evaluation of ethnicity as an explanation for eating behaviour Opposing: Mumford et al: Incidence of bulimia was greater among Asian schoolgirls than among white girls. Opposing: Strigel-Moore et al: More evidence of “drive to thinness” in black rather than white girls.

Evaluation of social class as explanation for eating behaviour : 

Evaluation of social class as explanation for eating behaviour Opposing: Story et al: The higher the social class among American students, the greater the satisfaction with weight an the lower the rates of weight control behaviours such as vomiting. Other research has not found a direct correlation between social class and body perception issues.

Eating behaviours case study: Binge eating : 

Eating behaviours case study: Binge eating Why are people eating like this? Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ee1LIqSXOwY Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixvFKwlqcEM&NR=1

Mood & eating behaviour : 

Mood & eating behaviour Binge-eating: There is often anxiety before binge-eating. Davis et al found that one hour before a binge, a bulimic had more negative mood states than at normal eating times. Wenger at al supports: Students recorded eating habits and mood states over a 2-week period. Findings: Binge days were characterised by generally low mood compared to non-binge days. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hj44KmnNeZo

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Comfort eating: Garg et al: 2 groups-one watched happy film, the other depressing one. Both offered grapes & buttered popcorn throughout the film. Those watching sad film – 36% more popcorn than other group, but the other group ate far more grapes than the sad film group. Conclusion: People who feel sad will eat foods that will give them a sudden rush of euphoria. Happy people want to extend their happy mood and therefore choose healthy foods.

Mood & eating behaviours evaluated : 

Mood & eating behaviours evaluated Supporting: Studies do show that when people have low mood, they eat and their mood lifts, although temporarily and then they have another dip. Chocolate: Parker et al: Although chocolate has slight antidepressant effects for some people, when consumed to improve mood, it is more likely to prolong rather than alleviate negative mood, especially if used repeatedly.

Evaluation of attitudes to food and eating behaviours research : 

Evaluation of attitudes to food and eating behaviours research Gender bias: Mostly done on females, although studies have shown that homosexual men also suffer the same disordered eating attitudes and behaviour. They also had more instances of bulimia compared to heterosexual men. Generalisibility: The studies we’ve covered have a wide variety of samples, from clinical to non-clinical Pps. WE can therefore not really generalise results to determining if there are universal reasons why eating disorders exist.

Review of lesson : 

Review of lesson What factors are involved in your eating habits according to research? What is the link between emotions & mood and eating behaviours? According to research, is chocolate the ultimate comfort food? Why has research on eating behaviours been criticised for generalisability and gender?