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Ashley Peart

March 27, 2014

Eng. 1102: K. Brewer

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Two Properly Portioned Meals

Abboud L. Expect a food fight as U.S. sets to revise diet guidelines. Wall Street Journal: August 8, 2003, B1 http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/pyramid/

This article demonstrates how you are not allowed to take junk food and meals, mainly in events or when out. It’s very fair to have a need to eat a nice and delicious meal at a food place, especially if you are not that good in cooking. But recall that meals from hotels are often way too big. You are not supposed to eat in one sitting so much food! Instead, eat only half meal and use the rest for lunch or other hour. You can also get an appetizer, instead of a full meal when aware of the betterment. Abboud says it is better to take 2 properly dieted meals a day due to its results of over eating.

Nielsen SJ, Popkin BM. Patterns and Trends in Food Portion Sizes, 1977-1998. JAMA. 2003;289(4):450–453. [PubMed]

This article focuses on eating only when you’re hungry. This point reasons of why people take more than two meals per day and more. Many individual seem to have an idea that individual time to eat depends on when you want to eat or you are hungry. This may appear generally but the best time to eat is between 10-12am then takes another meal at 6pm. Remember you don't need to eat any hour if not hungry. They recommend that if hungry between the mentioned time one is free to have a healthy snack. It's not advisable to starve in between meals: if you become too hungry, you'll be forced to have excess food when meal time comes.

De Castrol JM (1997) Socio-cultural determinants of meal size and frequency. British Journal of Nutrition (Suppl 1): S39-54

This file shows evidence how snacking is eating scenes between meals and it is usually as a result of cultural, practical, and personal influences. It has not increased in recent years due to beliefs that are contrary. They continue to explain how it has also influenced how many meals an individual would take a day. This eating habit between meals can be so helpful to some groups in a population such as elderly, children and those people with very active lifestyle. It helps them in meeting calorie and nutrient requirements. Snacking has been thought by many to contribute to weight gain to people who take, but this only happen if one usually consumes a lot more energy than what he or she needs. As long as energy intake is looked into snacking help some individuals to improve their weight control. This is because taking it more frequently may make favours to eating earlier in the day and also may increase intake of carbohydrate and decreasing fat consumption.

Matthews, Dawn D. Eating Disorders Sourcebook: Basic Consumer Health Information about Eating Disorders . . . Detroit, MI: Omnigraphics, 2001.

This article explained how Binge eating disorder is usually characterized by loss of control due to over eating behaviours. It usually consumes unnaturally food in large amounts for a short time period of time. A bulimic does not engage in those inappropriate weights reducing behaviour like taking excessive exercises or taking the laxities that follow the binge episodes. BED usually attacks an individual sometime between the early twenties or in adolescence stage. BED patients are usually overweight due to the nature of the disorder or obese. This is cause by overeating as explained by Mathews. Researchers have found that an average of 30 percent of affected individuals are binge eating.

This snacking mostly has an effect on equal numbers of both men and women. There is no good research study on how many children that are affected. But study shows that there is an estimate of 1 to 2 million individuals of all ages that take binge. Many of these people usually say that they were affected in their childhood by this condition.

Smolak, L. & Thompson, J.K. (Eds). (2009). Body Image, Eating Disorders, and Obesity in Youth: Assessment, Prevention, and Treatment, Second Edition. Washington, DC: APA.

This article helped to explain how these Eating Disorders are usually debilitating and can be very fatal. Generally the recognition of effects and the burden caused by these illnesses is lacking for public interest policy. It is only half of those individuals with anorexia and bulimia usually recover fully and even those individuals who have recovered from these conditions many continue to maintain low body weights. This is the study from the organization dedicated to eating disorders research for treatment and prevention.

Thompson, J.K. (Ed). (2003). Body Image, Eating Disorders, and Obesity: An Integrative Guide for Assessment and Treatment. Washington, DC: APA.

Thompson argued that many researchers have knowledge to these serious illnesses that reek on the body. This is caused by overeating thus taking more than 2 or 3 meals a day. In order to reduce the level of fat and obese, it is proper to take a dieted meal twice a day. These diseases include dental problems and osteoporosis among other health problems. But these psychologists may have a clue that eating disorders is one of the deadliest psychological conditions worldwide. The study shows that one out of every five people with anorexia usually dies of related causes to the disorder. It increases one the highest suicidal of any of the psychiatric condition.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Overweight and obesity; Defining overweight and obesity. [Last accessed on 2010]. Available from: http://www.cdc.gov/obesity/defining.html .

This website offered how Obesity in Childhood has become one of public issue in health crisis all over the world. This can be reduced by taking 2 meals a day. This problem can only be reduced giving children and parents education about nutrition and encouraging them to be exercising. Government have put and interventions are effective for prevention and control of this childhood obesity. These interventions are put to ensure that children can adopt healthy behaviours as a practice for a healthy life. This will lead to a healthy future for the kids worldwide.

Story, Mary; Neumark-Sztainer, Dianne; French, Simone (2002). "Individual and Environmental Influences on Adolescent Eating Behaviors". Journal of the American Dietetic Association 102 (3): S40–51. doi:10.1016/S0002-8223(02)90421-9. PMID 11902388.

Simone explained how when one is satisfied he should stop eating; it’s not ok when you’re full. Due t this they advise less a meal from the normal to reduce obesity. After one is through with eating, you should not be empty, but still not take to an extent of being completely full. If you are in a state of stuffing, you are not supposed to eat too much. One is required to acquire the habit of eating not so first so that one can know when you are full. It says that one’s brain require 20 minutes to give a signal that you are full. Having knowledge of what hunger feels like, one is not supposed to eat out of boredom! Understand that being hungry is an aspect of wanting food, any food to fill a pit in your stomach.

Nestle, Marion; Wing, Rena; Birch, Leann; Disogra, Lorelei; Drewnowski, Adam; Middleton, Suzette; Sigman-Grant, Madeleine; Sobal, Jeffery et al. (2009). "Behavioral and Social Influences on Food Choice". Nutrition Reviews 56 (5): 50. doi:10.1111/j.1753-4887.1998.tb01732.x.

Nestle Marion explained that women consume foods that are healthy because they know how to select comparing to men. This is well explanation because when choosing types of food women are usually concerned with their body issues. There is a relationship inverse between as girls and boys are usually seen as girls to have lower intake of minerals and vitamins and ingest fewer fruits than boys. The eating habits are usually based on economic status and financial status.

James WP (2008). "The fundamental drivers of the obesity epidemic". Obesity Research. 9 Suppl 1 (Mar;9 Suppl 1:6-13): 6–13. doi:10.1111/j.1467-789X.2007.00432.x. PMID 18307693

James discussed the significant portion of middle-aged and older adults responded to choosing foods due to concerns with Body-weight and heart disease are the issues that make older adults and middle aged to have concerns when choosing food. Youths usually choose food without considering the impact on their health. Taste and the appearance of the food is one of the determinants when it comes to choosing among youths. These Food choices usually change from an early to more mature age due to taste, income and concerns with their health and wellness.

Meiselman, Herbert L.; H. J. H. MacFie (1996). Food choice, acceptance and consumption. ISBN 978-0-7514-0192-9

Food choice is usually influenced by the level of education and the income of an individual. This makes the diet to vary depending with the income availability to purchase those healthier and nutrient rich foods. Families with low-income are usually affected by prices of food than the quality of food they will purchase. This makes the life expectancy of those people low. Similarly, higher expectations equate to those people with higher levels of education and those who avoid food additives. Foods that are carried in neighbourhood stores usually may influence diet due to high cost.