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Contemporary Diet & Nutrition: Unit 6

This document discusses various factors that influence diet and nutrition, including drugs for treating obesity, social and psychological factors, and economic factors. It provides links to resources on weight loss drugs and their side effects, emotional eating and social influences on food choices, and how income, time, and access to local farmers' markets can impact diet. Maintaining a healthy diet involves considering medical, social, and economic barriers as well as eating nutritious foods, watching calories, and exercising regularly.

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Contemporary Diet & Nutrition: Unit 6

This document discusses various factors that influence diet and nutrition, including drugs for treating obesity, social and psychological factors, and economic factors. It provides links to resources on weight loss drugs and their side effects, emotional eating and social influences on food choices, and how income, time, and access to local farmers' markets can impact diet. Maintaining a healthy diet involves considering medical, social, and economic barriers as well as eating nutritious foods, watching calories, and exercising regularly.

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Contemporary Diet

& Nutrition
UNIT 6

Ashley Ketten
Topic 1: Drugs to Treat Obesity
1. There is a lot of danger in taking weight loss drugs. The side effects can be a very long list and

the benefits can be very slim. This website is a good source of an detailed list of how each

weight loss drug works. https://www.rxlist.com/weight_loss_medications/drugs-condition.htm

2. The article talks about newer drugs that have been approved by the FDA. It talks about what

weight loss drugs you should avoid due to severe heart problems. It also suggests which

medications would work best with type 2 diabetes, migraines, and depression.

https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/are-weight-loss-drugs-worth-trying

3. If you are considering taking a dietary supplement or weight loss pill you should visit this page

first. You should also try eating healthy foods, cutting calories, and being physical active if trying

to lose weight according to this website. There is an A to Z list of common ingredients in weight

loss dietary supplements as to if they work and if they are safe.

https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/WeightLoss-Consumer/

Topic 2: Social and Psychological Factors


1. This video really puts things in a different perspective than what we normally think about I think.

The way that large corporations are investing in scientific studies and the results are coming out

to favor the investors is strange. Due to the lack of control of the studies. The lack of regulation

on the food industry is a big problem and Marion Nestle has a lot of reasons why.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FG0W0Mm5LTQ

2. Emotional eating can play a huge role as a roadblock in losing weight. Stress has the power to

get us off our diets in a moment of weakness and eat unhealthy things. There is a big difference

between emotional eating and binge eating, this article does into more detail about it.

https://www.medicinenet.com/emotional_eating/article.htm#what_is_emotional_eatingAdslkjf
3. This website is very helpful understand why we tend to eat what we do. Things like social class

and culture can be a big factor. Social support can also play a role, if you are around of bunch of

people eating McDonald’s instead of healthy food you will more than likely eat the McDonald’s

too. Mostly to do what everybody else is doing. https://www.eufic.org/en/healthy-

living/article/the-determinants-of-food-choice

Topic 3: Economic Factors


1. This website is a directory of all the national farmers markets in the United States. This is a great

source to find local affordable homegrown food. This can be a great way to build your local

economy along with not having to travel as far. https://www.ams.usda.gov/local-food-

directories/farmersmarkets

2. Households that have higher income tend to spend more money on both healthy and unhealthy

food from numerous sources. Whereas households that have lower income tend to spend more

eating out and the majority of their drinks are sugar sweetened drinks. Having a lower income is

associated with a poorer diet. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2988056/

3. This article talks about not only having income as a factor for food choice but also time. If you

have no time to cook healthy meals then you will eat out more. People who work multiple jobs,

have inflexible hours, and work nights are less likely to have a healthier diet.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK206912/

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