The Relationship between Food Choice and Stress

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Summary: Many researchers have noticed the relationship between stress and the amount of food a person intakes. However, not many research compares how stress influences the food choice a person makes. Therefore, in this paper I explained how food choice differs when women were put in high and low stress conditions. In addition the correlation between fat levels in foods and the stress level, and other possible factors that influenced the consumption of food other than high fat food. By, using the collective data in “The relationship between stress, dietary restraint, and food preferences in women” by Summar Habhab, Jane P. Sheldon, Roger C. Loeb.
Introduction:
Nowadays, obesity has become one of the public health concern and many people say this is due to the start-up of McDonald’s and other junk food restaurants. However, many people are missing out the correlation between obesity and stress and since some analysis suggest that stress has increased in “people’s lives today than 25 years ago”, it is very important to understand the relationship between stress and food choice. This will help people to pay more attention to what they eat and reduce the number of obese people. Therefore in this essay the following question will be answered, if stress has any influence on the food choice women makes based on the research conducted by Summar Habhab Jane P. Sheldon, Roger C. Loeb and how stress affects the function of hormone serotonin.
Body:
The method of this experiment: The experiment conducted by Summer Habjab, Jane P. Sheldon, Roger C. Loeb made high and low stressing conditions to test if the food choice among the 40 women differs if they were placed in different stress leveled environment. The high stressed condition was creat...

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...heir stressing level may have been influenced other then the Sudoku puzzle it-self. So, this means that maybe for some people in the low stressing environment may have felt stressed and the stress level may have differed with different individuals. Lastly, the numbers of participants were only 40 people, which is very small number to support this result of this research fully.
Conclusion
In short, from this research, even though there are some errors and limitation in this research that is needs to be fixed. It can be stated that there are tight links between stress and food choice women make. Therefore, to reduce the number of obese people in our society, we should spread this knowledge and warn people to be careful of their food choice when they are stressed. So in the near future, less people are obese and obesity will no longer become a public health concern.

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