This week's blog post is about diet change. In comparison to medication adherence, exercise, or sleep, diet is one of the hardest health behaviors to change. Here's a look at some possible reasons for that difference: https://sites.google.com/view/two-minds/blog
Yes its difficult to change the diet. Their are the several challenges that are the common in community.
- Psychological Barriers: Breaking up with unhealthy favorite food with new food that cause initial carving , psychological change , headache or fatigue . Its due to adjusting new intake of nutrients and healthy food in the body. Its possible to be change with passage of time gradually the body adopt the nutrition metabolism .
- Time constraints: Meal planning is time consuming .Due to busy life , the consumer avoid such type of planning . They prefer to eat ready to eat food. Even due to using mobile application people prefer to order the food . They don't care about the diet . Its good step to move toward the mobile application but the initial step to give the awareness through these platform as well generate the diet plan on these digital platform.
- Social situations: The social gathering is main important factor . Due to gathering they prefer to go to restaurants . They don't care about the diet .
- Cost and accessibility: The economical situation is most important factor that effect on the diet .The low income families not afford to buy the foods that are more nutritious . The want to eat according to their life style.
Shah Zaib Fareed, thank you for your comments! I talked about social pressures on eating in my blog post, and I think they are about more than just restaurants. Family gatherings or other parties also tend to involve some of the least healthy food options. I also talked about cost and accessibility. The issue of time constraints is an interesting addition. I talked about the need for knowledge and expertise, but you are right that some people don't have the time needed to learn about healthy food or prepare their own healthy foods, because of economic pressures or general chaos in their lives. Time is likely another reason for the significant health disparities in diet that we see in the U.S. based on economic status, race, and ethnicity.
Your point about psychological barriers is also an intriguing one. I wrote about emotional reactions to specific foods, but your comment suggests a more physiological connection. I have definitely seen explanations that suggest an addictive tolerance-and-withdrawal reaction to foods high in fat, sugar, or carbohydrates (e.g., because of their effects on endogenous opioids or on serotonin in the brain). A recent review suggests that those effects aren't strong enough to actually produce tolerance and withdrawal: Article Food Craving and Food “Addiction”
Instead, the authors suggest that it's difficult to stop eating an enjoyable food once you have started, especially if you have been previously avoiding it. That might be one reason people have such a strong "abstinence violation effect" with diet, where they find it hard to cheat "just a little bit" with foods that they are trying to avoid. Still, it seems like an open question exactly how this biobehavioral relationship works, because people do often report an "addictive" pattern in their relationship with certain foods.- Badges
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