Eating Habits
List a factor that influences eating habits.
Geographic location, income, advertising, or personal knowledge.
The quicker you realize you are not a disable weight, __________.
The easier it will be to make a change.
List a characteristic of being bulimic.
Eating large quantities of food or forcing themselves to vomit, obsessing about food or losing weight, even if they are already underweight.
How does Income influence eating habits?
Your food budget impacts your purchases. Income often influences not only what you can afford to buy, but whenever certain options are even available to you when it comes to food selection.
List 2 diseases someone could get as a result of being overweight.
Diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure.
What is Anorexia?
Anorexia is defined as a refusal to maintain body weight within 15 percent of normal weight.
List three characteristics affected by eating habits.
Religious beliefs, social influences, special diets, appearance, energy and stamina, health and physical fitness, personality and emotions, self-concept, or physical and mental performance.
Increased risk of disease, lack of stamina or vitality, unattractive appearance, increased health care costs, eating disorders, increased risk of emotional issues.
What is Bulimia?
People with bulimia eat large amounts of food in a short amount of times, then force themselves to vomit and/or take laxatives or diuretics.
How do special diets affect eating habits?
If you develop a health condition at some point in your life, it may require a special diet. Health conditions that affect special diets are diabetes, heart conditions, and allergies. If you are an athlete, you may follow a special diet to improve your overall fitness.
How do you measure body fat?
One quick method is to squeeze the skin and tissue together on the back of the arm, if the layer of fold between your fingers is more than one inch, it is excess body fat.
What are 4 characteristics binge eating?
Eating large amounts of food in a short amount of time, secrecy surrounding their eating, Disappearance of food and presence of many empty food wrappers or food containers in the trash, hiding junk food, alternating between overeating and fasting.
How does attitude and values influence eating habits?
Your personal attitude towards your food and your values concerning good health influence your diet.
List 4 ways to tell if you are overweight or underweight.
Lack of stamina or vitality, attractive appearance, eating disorders, increased health care costs.
What are 5 characteristics of anorexics?
Refusing to eat, eating excessively, obsessing about their weight and seeing themselves as fat when they are underweight, lacking nutrients for good health, abnormal menstrual cycles, erosion of dental enamel and discolored teeth, scarring of hands.