scholarly journals The Role of the Passive Voice Mindset in Regulating Healthy Eating

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 37
Author(s):  
Ibrahim Senay ◽  
Muhammet Usak ◽  
Zeynep Ceren Acarturk
Keyword(s):  
Healthy Eating ◽  
Eating Habits ◽  
Passive Voice ◽  
Active Voice ◽  
The Past ◽  
It Impacts ◽  
Unhealthy Eating

Talking about eating in the passive, as opposed to the active voice, (e.g., The cake will be eaten vs. I will eat the cake) can lead people to see the act of eating to be triggered by the food to a greater extent, leading to the continuation of past eating habits. Depending on whether or not the past habits are healthy, the motivation for healthy eating may change as a result. In study 1, writing passive sentences increased the motivation for healthy eating to the extent that people reported eating healthy in the past. Moreover, in study 2 across 127 languages spoken in 94 countries, when the acted-upons of actions (e.g., the food in the act of eating) became relatively more salient in a language, people became more likely to act on cultural habits that may be relatively healthier, decreasing unhealthy eating. The results are important for understanding the perceived role of food in starting eating as it impacts healthy eating across cultures.

scholarly journals The Role of Lifestyle, Eating Habits and Social Environment in the Prevention and Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes and Hypertension

Nutrients ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
pp. 1460
Author(s):  
Kalliopi Karatzi ◽  
Yannis Manios
Keyword(s):  
Type 2 Diabetes ◽  
Social Environment ◽  
Eating Habits ◽  
Health Problems ◽  
Major Health ◽  
The Past ◽  
Prevention And Treatment

Type 2 diabetes (T2DM) and hypertension are major health problems, with an undisputed growth burden in the past decades [...]

scholarly journals RHETORICAL PATTERNS, VERB TENSE, AND VOICE IN CROSS DISCIPLINARY RESEARCH ARTICLE ABSTRACT

2016 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sharifah Hanidar
Keyword(s):  
Mechanical Engineering ◽  
Past Tense ◽  
Passive Voice ◽  
Active Voice ◽  
Rhetorical Patterns ◽  
The Past ◽  
Research Article ◽  
Research Procedure ◽  
Present Tense ◽  
Verb Tense

This article investigates research article abstracts in terms of their rhetorical patterns and the use of verb tenses and voice. A total of 40 abstracts were selected from four international journals in the fields of Biology, Mechanical Engineering, Linguistics, and Medicine. A four move model was adopted from Hardjanto (1997) to analyze the structure of the abstracts. The results show that all the abstracts have Move 1, creating a research space; 70% have Move 2, describing research procedure; 85% have Move 3, summarizing principal results; and 85% have Move 4, evaluating results. All the abstracts in medicine have Moves 1, 2, 3 and 4, whereas the most common pattern in Biology is Moves 1, 3 and 4, in Mechanical Engineering Moves 1, 2 and 3, and in Linguistics Moves 1, 2 and 4. This seems to suggest that there is a disciplinary variation in the structuring of RA abstracts in the four disciplines under investigation. With regard to the use of verb tense and voice in each move, the present tense and past tense in the active voice and the past tense in the passive voice were the most frequently used tenses. The present tense in the active voice was frequently used in Moves 1 and 4, while the past tense in the active voice was commonly used in Move 3 and the past tense in the passive voice was frequently found in Move 2. Furthermore, it was found that the present tense in the active voice was frequently used in Biology, Mechanical Engineering and Linguistics, whereas the past tense in the active voice occurred more frequently in Medicine, and the past tense in the passive voice was more frequently found in Mechanical Engineering than in other disciplines. 

scholarly journals Shaping Healthy Eating Habits in Children With Persuasive Strategies: Toward a Typology

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alice Binder ◽  
Brigitte Naderer ◽  
Jörg Matthes
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Healthy Eating ◽  
Eating Habits ◽  
Healthy Foods ◽  
Research Gaps ◽  
Persuasive Strategies ◽  
Healthy Eating Habits ◽  
Research Gap

There is an abundance of evidence that the presentation of unhealthy foods (UHFs) in different media has the power to shape eating habits in children. Compared to this rich body of work with regard to the effects of UHF presentations, studies testing the effects of healthy foods (HFs) are less conclusive. In particular, while the persuasive mechanisms behind HF presentations are well-understood, we lack insights about the role of messages factors, that is, how are (and should) HFs (be) presented in order to foster healthy eating habits in children. This paper tackles this research gap by suggesting the Persuasive Strategies Presenting Healthy Foods to Children (PSPHF) typology, classified along three pillars: (a) composition-related characteristics, (b) source-related characteristics, and (c) information-related characteristics. Against the background of the PSPHF typology, we review the available empirical evidence, outline pressing research gaps, and discuss implications for researchers, health promoters, and program planers.

scholarly journals Cooking up an injustice: A critical examination of the role of cooking programs in reducing health inequalities

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 65-77
Author(s):  
Rosa Van Kesteren
Keyword(s):  
Healthy Eating ◽  
Eating Habits ◽  
Critical Examination ◽  
Embodied Learning ◽  
Dietary Behaviours ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Cooking Classes ◽  
The Impact

The way we eat is one of the biggest causes of preventable illness and death, particularly for those living in more deprived areas. Public health interventions often include courses teaching cooking ‘from scratch’ as an affordable means of dietary improvement, but this paper questions the effectiveness of such programs. Using an in-depth case study of a leading healthy cooking programme, including ethnographic observations of seven cooking classes and interviews with 35 participants and three members of staff, we show that the impact of this programme was limited by its adherence to conventional ‘nutrient-focused’ framings of healthy eating. Teaching based on this framing created confusion by separating nutrients from foods, hampered embodied learning of skills and ultimately failed to address how learnings could be integrated into the everyday lives of participants Unable to engage with inequities in access, preparation time, food environments or other sociocultural influences on eating habits, courses built on similarly nutricentric foundations will never be able to address the major barriers to healthy eating faced by their target participants. As an alternative, we propose that cooking courses grounded in a more ‘practice-based’ understanding of healthy eating would be more effective at changing dietary behaviours, especially in areas of higher deprivation.

scholarly journals Personality traits predict dietary habits in middle-to-older adults

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara J Weston ◽  
Grant Edmonds ◽  
Patrick Hill
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Health Behaviors ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Healthy Eating ◽  
Dietary Habits ◽  
Eating Habits ◽  
Emotional Stability ◽  
Healthy Foods ◽  
Self Rated Health

Personality traits are consistently associated with health behaviors, but little research has examined the role of personality on eating habits among middle-to-older adults. The current study (n = 665) examined the associations between traits and dietary habits and whether healthy eating predicted health at age 60, with the Hawaii Personality and Health Cohort. Eating healthy foods was associated with higher agreeableness, conscientiousness, emotional stability, and openness, and predicted better self-rated health and lower BMI. Eating unhealthy foods was associated with lower agreeableness, conscientiousness, emotional stability, and openness, and predicted lower self-rated health. Results were not moderated by SES.

scholarly journals Investigation of Passive Voice Occurrence in Scientific Writing

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-66
Author(s):  
Urip Subagio ◽  
J. A. Prayogo ◽  
Emalia Iragiliati
Keyword(s):  
Research Method ◽  
Scientific Writing ◽  
Method Section ◽  
Passive Voice ◽  
Active Voice ◽  
The Past ◽  
Efl Students ◽  
Time Periods ◽  
Voice Use

This study investigated passive voice use in theses of Graduate EFL students, Universitas Negeri Malang. The occurrences of passive voice in research method chapter in two time periods, 1985 - 2000 and 2002 – 2015 were compared. Passive voice occurrence in chapter of research method was also investigated then it was compared with the active. Passive voice occurrence in theses before 2002 investigated which was 1458, and 1171 in theses published after 2000 indicated the fact that today passive voice use in scientific writing indeed less frequent compared to the past. In addition, unlike the findings of some previous studies that claimed passive voice occurrence is still more dominant than the active in method section of scientific writing, this study found that, even in chapter of research method, active voice today occurs more frequently. It was 1883 occurrences of active voice and 1171 of passive voice were found.

scholarly journals Health promotion and healthy eating habits. Exploratory study in primary education

2019 ◽  
Vol 66 ◽  
pp. 01032
Author(s):  
Encarnación Pedrero-García ◽  
Olga Moreno-Fernández ◽  
Pilar Moreno-Crespo ◽  
Carmen Solís-Espallargas
Keyword(s):  
Health Education ◽  
Primary Education ◽  
Healthy Eating ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Eating Habits ◽  
Good Health ◽  
Total Sample ◽  
Healthy Habits ◽  
Healthy Eating Habits

This paper focuses on the importance of health education in Primary Education and the role of schools in the acquisition of healthy habits, especially in nutrition. The aim of this study is to provide an approximation of what students in the 6th year of Primary Education (11-12 years old) understand by healthy habits related to nutrition. A questionnaire of six openended questions was carried out, with a total sample of 78 children. It should be noted that a large sample confuses healthy eating with good health. We therefore consider the need to favour greater health education in school classrooms, as this would help them to differentiate balanced diets from those that are not and, therefore, to prepare healthy menus appropriately.

Hebrew verbal passives in Later Language Development: the interface of register and verb morphology

2016 ◽  
Vol 44 (6) ◽  
pp. 1309-1336 ◽  
Author(s):  
DORIT RAVID ◽  
LIZZY VERED
Keyword(s):  
Language Development ◽  
Past Tense ◽  
Future Tense ◽  
Passive Voice ◽  
Verb Morphology ◽  
Active Voice ◽  
Verb Tense

AbstractThe current study examined the production of Hebrew verbal passives across adolescence as mediated by linguistic register and verb morphology. Participants aged eight to sixteen years and a group of adults were asked to change written active-voice sentences into corresponding passive-voice forms, divided by verb register (neutral and high),binyanpattern (Qal / Nif'al, Hif'il / Huf'al, andPi'el / Pu'al), and verb tense (past and future tense). Results showed that Hebrew passive morphology is a very late acquisition, almost a decade later than in other languages, that passivizing neutral-register verbs was less challenging than high-register verbs, and that past tense verbs were easier to passivize than future tense verbs. An order of acquisition was determined among the threebinyanpairs. The paper provides an account of these findings grounded in the event-telling role of Hebrew passives in discourse and the spurt of abstract, lexically specific vocabulary in Later Language Development.

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