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Healthy Eating

HEALTHY EATING

Healthy Eating

Our society have change in many was our eating habits. Nutritionist recommended that in the daily in our diet have not more than 30% of fat. Usually most us consume over 40% of fat that can cause an increase to cholesterol (Crawford, 2010). Eating healthy is more that been in a diet, involves knowing the right thing for our age, sex, and physical state. All of this sums up to several reasons that explain why we have so many incidents with obesity. There are mainly three reasons for behavior like eating healthy and they are motives, biological needs, and stimuli. For example, in the development of an individual the changes can be impact on how she/he feels about him/ her self. Some adolescence girls may feel uncomfortable with your body in development; others would like to develop more quickly. Girls may feel pressure to be thin, while boys may feel they are not big or muscular enough. External motivation like the appearance can come from the need of other individual approval (Deckers, 2010). Furthermore, the theory of motivation has two main types of motivation, intrinsic and extrinsic (Deckers, 2010). Intrinsic motivation stems from an natural appreciation of the activity involved and a sense of satisfaction when there is a good result from something that the individual does (Deckers, 2010). There are several theories that describe intrinsic motivation such as the self-efficacy that define a individuals competence within a task are in line with a mastery criteria their ability to perform satisfactorily. Motivation to eat healthy can come from a variety of sources. There are always individuals that said I cant fit into my clothing or I want to fit into my swimsuit. In other way or another, the response of an individual will be reinforced either positively or negatively by

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their historical construct of a good eating habits. A non-active family will have a tough time motivating an overweight teenager to shed pounds compared to a historically active family, which actually is much less likely to have an overweight teenager anyway. In a case that an adolescent that is overweight and wants to lose weight, they may be inhibited the desire to feel good come into play, an individual is more likely to overcome feelings. The motivation for eating healthy is the determination to make an effort to achieve the goals of felling better. The felling of motivation will stay strong in the period of natural decline when outcomes are cognitively contextualized. A great way to maintain the motivation is to keep an old photo into the fridge to avoid breaking your goal. The facts remain that if an individual can establish good eating habits, that individual can have a healthier physical outcome. There is a health crisis worldwide. Our children are been raised believing that fasts-foods are good. In an age when we should be living longer and healthier we are confronting a high cases of diabetes, heart disease, and high blood pressure. All of these conditions can be improved with the inclusion of balance nutrition. We have to be aware in the way our children are being raised because they are the future. I think that we as parents should make a balance between eating healthy and excise without been boring. One reason is often used for not treating an obese child is thinking that the child will cease to be without treatment reach adulthood, but the reality is different, because depending on age of onset of obesity and severity of obesity. Eating healthy will not only benefit our physical state but also our mind.

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