PSY333H5 Lecture 5: PSY333 - Lecture 5
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Introduction: social construction of gender, 1 stereotype of eating healthy food. "complex web of societal and biological factors that increase human vulnerability to weight gain" So much more than eating + food: ncd = noncommunicable disease, growing most rapidly = developing countries, = epidemiological transition. Killer at large video: https://www. youtube. com/watch?v=kbvm3fwpxcy&feature=youtu. be, list of as many message coming through or tied in with class/textbook, brooke. Stressful, nothing else to do - parents fighting. For her --> eating = coping mechanisms (emotional reasons: double whammy of no support at school/no friendship --> social support didn"t report that, chaos, arguments, and lack of control of parents, when lost weight. Said would never go back: was so happy, will eat well + exercise, can"t imagine going back but happened w/in 7 mths, radical surgeries can be very helpful but in conjunction w/ addressing the root cause.
