Responsiveness to Food-Related Conflict Predicts Healthy Eating

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra Wittleder ◽  
Vanessa Begemann ◽  
Gabriele Oettingen ◽  
David Melnikoff ◽  
Tilman Reinelt ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Healthy Eating ◽  
Unhealthy Food ◽  
Life Study ◽  
Sensitivity Measure ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
Eating Regulation

One reason why people fail to eat healthily is that they lack control over unwanted actions. Another largely ignored reason might be that they fail to engage control when encountering temptations. Accordingly, we tested (N=511) if how responsive people are to conflict between healthy and unhealthy food is an important part of eating regulation. We developed a conflict sensitivity measure that indicates responsiveness to conflict between healthy and unhealthy food via post-conflict slowing. We then show that the stronger participants are committed to healthy eating, the more they slowed down after relevant conflict (Study 1, 2) but not after irrelevant conflict (Study 2). Furthermore, increasing commitment to healthy eating increased post-conflict slowing compared to when the goal was not activated (Study 3). Importantly, post-conflict slowing predicted subsequent healthy eating in participants’ everyday life (Study 2). Our findings suggest that conflict responses might be an important part of healthy eating.

scholarly journals The good face of media: Kids weight loss competitions

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 39
Author(s):  
Razan Shwayhat
Keyword(s):  
Weight Loss ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Healthy Eating ◽  
Eating Habits ◽  
Food Choices ◽  
The Other ◽  
Unhealthy Food ◽  
Healthy Eating Habits ◽  
Long Time ◽  
The Media

Media has been blamed for long time and more these days for spreading bad eating habits, inactivity and making unhealthy food choices especially among children. Through my work in the media especially TV, I wanted to use the other side of media and influence healthy eating habits among children and adults. Competitions drive challenge and determination, I created the first Arabic weight loss competition for kids on TV titled "Ghizaak Sihtak" may be translated to " Eat Well Live Well  Competition". The competition allows kids to live their normal everyday life (not in camps) and teaches them how to make healthy choices, be more active and thus lose weight. The Ghizaak Sihtak Compeition helped many kids lose more than 20Kilos in around 6months and keep it off for 2 years so far. This year - the 5th season for   kids - 10 kids started are participating in this weight loss journey while many others are watching them and are affected with their stories. The Compeition is broadcasted on Roya TV.

Management of healthy eating in everyday life among senior Europeans

Appetite ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 55 (3) ◽  
pp. 616-622 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pernilla Lundkvist ◽  
Christina Fjellström ◽  
Birgitta Sidenvall ◽  
Margaret Lumbers ◽  
Monique Raats
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Healthy Eating

scholarly journals Translational competency

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily Yates-Doerr
Keyword(s):  
Body Size ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Obesity Prevention ◽  
Healthy Eating ◽  
Medical Settings ◽  
Obesity Interventions ◽  
Refusal To Treat ◽  
Policies And Programs ◽  
Relational Contexts

This article introduces the notion of ‘translational competency’, a skill of attending to different understandings of health and how these are negotiated between medical settings and everyday life. This skill is especially important for the design of obesity-prevention policies and programs, given the diverse values surrounding both healthy eating and desirable weight. Through its focus on communicative interactions, translational competency entails a refusal to treat cultural differences regarding diet or body size as a problem. Rather, it encourages engagement with the relational contexts out of which health problems develop and transform, taking culture to be a process of negotiation and adaptation. In this article I present an example of the utility of the skill of translational competency taken from research on obesity in Guatemala. I then illustrate how translational competency might be used in the design of obesity interventions.

Everyday life classification practices and technologies

2015 ◽  
Vol 71 (5) ◽  
pp. 957-975 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jill McTavish
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Healthy Eating ◽  
Domain Knowledge ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Small Sample ◽  
Classification Systems ◽  
Library And Information Science ◽  
Card Sort ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Values And Beliefs

Purpose – Through the application of domain-analytic principles, the purpose of this paper is to explore how participants’ understandings of healthy eating are related to their grouping and classification of foods. Design/methodology/approach – In total, 30 food-interested people were asked to (1) sort a series of 56 statements about food, health, and eating on a scale from “most disagree” to “most agree”; (2)complete an open card sort of 50 foods; and (3) classify these 50 foods on a scale from “most unhealthy” to “most healthy”. Exercises (1) and (3) involved Q-methodology, which groups people who share similar understandings of a phenomenon. Findings – Participants’ understandings of healthy eating – revealed by the first Q-methodology exercise – were related to shared food priorities, values, and beliefs; these understandings were indirectly connected with food identities, which was not expected. This suggests that lay domain knowledge is difficult to capture and must involve other methodologies than those currently employed in domain-analytic research. Research limitations/implications – Although a small sample of food-interested people were recruited, the purpose of this study was not to make generalized claims about perspectives on healthy eating, but to explore how domain knowledge is related to everyday organizational processes. Originality/value – To “classify” in Library and Information Science (LIS) usually involves an engagement with formally established classification systems. In this paper the author suggests an alternative path for LIS scholars: the investigation of everyday life classification practices. Such an approach has value beyond the idiosyncratic, as the author discusses how these practices can inform LIS researchers’ strategies for augmenting the messages provided by static classification technologies.

scholarly journals Does Advertising Content Matter? Impacts of Healthy Eating and Anti-Obesity Advertising on Willingness to Pay by Consumer Body Mass Index

2018 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruitong Wang ◽  
Jura Liaukonyte ◽  
Harry M. Kaiser
Keyword(s):  
Body Mass Index ◽  
Willingness To Pay ◽  
Body Mass ◽  
Healthy Eating ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Unhealthy Food ◽  
Food And Beverage ◽  
Advertising Content

This study examines the impacts of two types of advertising content—healthy eating and anti-obesity advertising—on the demand for healthy and unhealthy food and beverage items. We show that differentiating consumers by weight is crucial in fully understanding the effects of advertising content on food and beverage demand. We find that among overweight individuals, anti-obesity advertisements are more effective than healthy eating advertisements at reducing the demand for unhealthy items and increasing the demand for healthy items. Furthermore, the magnitude of this effect increases with BMI. We discuss possible explanations and policy implications based on our results.

Examining fat talk and self-compassion as distinct motivational processes in women’s eating regulation: A self-determination theory perspective

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (12) ◽  
pp. 1965-1977 ◽  
Author(s):  
Camille Guertin ◽  
Kheana Barbeau ◽  
Luc Pelletier
Keyword(s):  
Healthy Eating ◽  
Self Determination Theory ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Fat Talk ◽  
Self Compassion ◽  
Health Goals ◽  
Extrinsic Goals ◽  
Unhealthy Eating ◽  
Eating Regulation

This study examined whether pursuing intrinsic versus extrinsic goals was associated with distinct motivational processes in eating regulation and with healthy versus unhealthy eating. Path analysis demonstrated that appearance goals were associated with fat talk, whereas health goals were associated with self-compassion. Fat talk was positively associated with non-self-determined motivation and unhealthy eating, whereas self-compassion was positively associated with self-determined motivation and healthy eating, and negatively associated with unhealthy eating. Findings emphasize the negative effects of pursuing appearance goals and engaging in fat talk and the benefits of pursuing health goals and being self-compassionate.

scholarly journals Information seeking abroad: an everyday-life study of international students

2019 ◽  
Vol 75 (6) ◽  
pp. 1298-1316 ◽  
Author(s):  
Morten Hertzum ◽  
Jette Seiden Hyldegård
Keyword(s):  
International Students ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Personal Growth ◽  
Information Seeking ◽  
Information Needs ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Issues ◽  
Content Type ◽  
First Semester ◽  
Life Study

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate how four international students at a Danish university cope with their study-related and everyday information needs, behaviorally as well as affectively, and how their information seeking blends with their cross-cultural adaptation. Design/methodology/approach Each of the four participants contributed ten diaries and took part in three interviews during the first semester of their stay. Findings International students’ information needs and seeking behavior are shaped by their host university but also by cross-cultural, personal and situational issues. While the cross-cultural issues set international students apart from domestic students, the personal and situational issues create individual differences that call for more individually tailored support. The studied international students lacked information about both study-related and everyday issues. These two types of issues were intertwined and experienced as equally stressful. However, study-related information needs were more important, whereas everyday information needs were more difficult to resolve. In addition, participants tended to feel on their own when it came to finding needed information, but studying abroad also had elements of personal growth in meeting life’s challenges. Research limitations/implications More participants are needed to investigate how international students’ information seeking evolves over time. Originality/value This study contributes detailed information about international students’ study-related and everyday information seeking during their first semester abroad. The study has implications for everyday-life studies of international students’ information behavior and the international classroom in general.

scholarly journals Segmenting Hungarian people based on healthy eating

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 65-72
Author(s):  
Veronika Keller
Keyword(s):  
Healthy Eating ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
Hierarchical Cluster ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Overweight And Obesity ◽  
Healthy Food ◽  
Unhealthy Food ◽  
Targeted Marketing ◽  
The Government

Relying on customer trends healthy eating, which is one aspect of healthy lifestyle is becoming more and more popular. The aim of this study was to understand the healthy eating style of Hungarian adult consumers. An online empirical research with a sample of 1563 respondents (58.7% females and 41.3% males) was conducted in November 2018. Considering healthy eating two factors, namely the choice of healthy foods and the avoidance of unhealthy foods could be distinguished. A hierarchical cluster analysis was conducted to segment consumers. Four groups of consumers were identified: unhealthy food avoiders (20.3%), rejecters (11.8%), neutrals (26.2%) and healthy food choosers (14.7%). Unhealthy food avoiders are seniors. Rejecters are blue collar workers and have financial problems. Healthy food choosers live in families with children over 10 and do not have weight problems. This study is useful for the health sector and the government since targeted marketing programs can be planned to change eating behavior. To decrease overweight and obesity is the goal of all society, especially in developed countries. To increase the well-being of people and their quality of life educating social marketing campaigns are necessary with the aim of raising their awareness and explaining the basic principles of a healthy diet. JEL Classification: 112, M30, M39

scholarly journals Neural Substrates of Food Valuation and Its Relationship With BMI and Healthy Eating in Higher BMI Individuals

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Junaid Salim Merchant ◽  
Danielle Cosme ◽  
Elliot Berkman ◽  
Nicole Giuliani ◽  
Bryce Dirks
Keyword(s):  
Eating Behavior ◽  
Healthy Eating ◽  
Bayes Factor ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Community Sample ◽  
Healthy Eating Index ◽  
Unhealthy Food ◽  
Potential Mechanism ◽  
Imaging Data ◽  
Subjective Valuation

Considerable evidence points to a link between body mass index (BMI), eating behavior, and the brain's reward system. However, much of this research focuses on food cue reactivity without examining the subjective valuation process as a potential mechanism driving individual differences in BMI and eating behavior. The current pre-registered study (https://osf.io/n4c95/) examined the relationship between BMI, healthy eating, and subjective valuation of healthy and unhealthy foods in a community sample of individuals with higher BMI who intended to eat more healthily. Particularly, we examined: (1) alterations in neurocognitive measures of subjective valuation related to BMI and healthy eating; (2) differences in the neurocognitive valuation for healthy and unhealthy foods and their relation to BMI and healthy eating; (3) and whether we could conceptually replicate prior findings demonstrating differences in neural reactivity to palatable vs. plain foods. To this end, we scanned 105 participants with BMIs ranging from 23 to 42 using fMRI during a willingness-to-pay task that quantifies trial-by-trial valuation of 30 healthy and 30 unhealthy food items. We measured out of lab eating behavior via the Automated Self-Administered 24 H Dietary Assessment Tool, which allowed us to calculate a Healthy Eating Index (HEI). We found that our sample exhibited robust, positive linear relationships between self-reported value and neural responses in regions previously implicated in studies of subjective value, suggesting an intact valuation system. However, we found no relationship between valuation and BMI nor HEI, with Bayes Factor indicating moderate evidence for a null relationship. Separating the food types revealed that healthy eating, as measured by the HEI, was inversely related to subjective valuation of unhealthy foods. Imaging data further revealed a stronger linkage between valuation of healthy (compared to unhealthy) foods and corresponding response in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC), and that the interaction between healthy and unhealthy food valuation in this region is related to HEI. Finally, our results did not replicate reactivity differences demonstrated in prior work, likely due to differences in the mapping between food healthiness and palatability. Together, our findings point to disruptions in the valuation of unhealthy foods in the vmPFC as a potential mechanism influencing healthy eating.

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