How does food addiction have an impact on people’s health & wellbeing?
“Food addiction is a disease, which causes loss of control over the ability to stop eating certain foods.”
The issue selected for this assignment is food addiction. It will be narrowed down to what food addiction is, why people are mostly addicted to unhealthy foods, the effects it has on the body, mind, financially, physically and physiologically and how food addiction is cured.
The assignments requirements were to design a survey about your topic that you could give to teachers, students or whoever to get feedback. I sent the link of my survey to Ms Bogle to put on the schools Facebook page. I got many helpful responses; I have made the multiple questions into graphs so it is simple to read the stats of the responses.
Food addiction is a compulsion to eat or consume specific foods on a daily basis, which most often happens to be unhealthy foods. “A food addiction is when you are unable to stop eating/thinking about food” – Anonymous respondent from survey. Food addiction is similar to a drug or alcohol addiction, it involves the same areas in the brain; the same neurotransmitters and many of the symptoms are identical. Food addiction can occur in people who struggle with another eating disorder for …show more content…
This was a question that was in the survey and I got many appropriate responses. One being, “Food addiction has an effect on the a persons mind because they could develop depression and a poor self-esteem. It has an effect on the body as they might experience weight gain and lethargy. It effects a person socially as they could lose confidence as they think they might be being judged by their body image. Finally it effects a person financially as they are always buying foods that they are addictive to so it comes to a point where they are struggling with money. – Anonymous respondent from
“Food addiction is a disease, which causes loss of control over the ability to stop eating certain foods.”
The issue selected for this assignment is food addiction. It will be narrowed down to what food addiction is, why people are mostly addicted to unhealthy foods, the effects it has on the body, mind, financially, physically and physiologically and how food addiction is cured.
The assignments requirements were to design a survey about your topic that you could give to teachers, students or whoever to get feedback. I sent the link of my survey to Ms Bogle to put on the schools Facebook page. I got many helpful responses; I have made the multiple questions into graphs so it is simple to read the stats of the responses.
Food addiction is a compulsion to eat or consume specific foods on a daily basis, which most often happens to be unhealthy foods. “A food addiction is when you are unable to stop eating/thinking about food” – Anonymous respondent from survey. Food addiction is similar to a drug or alcohol addiction, it involves the same areas in the brain; the same neurotransmitters and many of the symptoms are identical. Food addiction can occur in people who struggle with another eating disorder for …show more content…
This was a question that was in the survey and I got many appropriate responses. One being, “Food addiction has an effect on the a persons mind because they could develop depression and a poor self-esteem. It has an effect on the body as they might experience weight gain and lethargy. It effects a person socially as they could lose confidence as they think they might be being judged by their body image. Finally it effects a person financially as they are always buying foods that they are addictive to so it comes to a point where they are struggling with money. – Anonymous respondent from