Intuitive Eating Vs Dieting
The Stomach Speaks: Intuitive Eating Versus Dieting
D104 1:30pm – 2:20pm
April 2, 2015
St#: 301219589
Tianyi (Vicky) Xing
Professor Andrew Blaber
BPK 140 (D104)
02 April 2015
The Stomach Speaks: Intuitive Eating Versus Dieting The number of overweight and obese people in the world has been increasing rapidly in North America. “The traditional approach to weight loss has been to restrict food intake” (Van Dyke and Drinkwater 1) as evidenced by the fact that most health care professionals use some means of dieting as primary treatment for patients struggling with weight. Recently increased research has been done on an alternative treatment method called intuitive eating (IE). Intuitive eating is defined as “the dynamic process-integrating attunement of mind, body and food” (Schlam and Guimera 2). It is characterized by reliance on and trust in one’s individual physiological hunger and satiety cues, which guide one’s food intake. Researchers have found that intuitive eating presents as a more effective way of reducing possibilities of developing certain eating disorders, building a positive psychological relationship between food and self- image, as well as eliminating the vicious circle of weight regain when compared with the traditional dieting method. The traditional method of dieting has been used for a long time among all types of people. In her research on assessing the effectiveness of intuitive eating for weight loss, Judith Camele Anglin compared a control calorie restricted group with an intuitive eating group. She found that total weight loss was statistically greater in the calories restricted group than in the intuitive eating group. The calories restricted group lost around 5.31lbs and the intuitive eating group only lost 3.38lbs by the end of the experiment. However, this study only took place over 6 weeks, which may be considered a short-term result. In the Dyke and Drinkwater study, the researchers found that dieting is generally
D104 1:30pm – 2:20pm
April 2, 2015
St#: 301219589
Tianyi (Vicky) Xing
Professor Andrew Blaber
BPK 140 (D104)
02 April 2015
The Stomach Speaks: Intuitive Eating Versus Dieting The number of overweight and obese people in the world has been increasing rapidly in North America. “The traditional approach to weight loss has been to restrict food intake” (Van Dyke and Drinkwater 1) as evidenced by the fact that most health care professionals use some means of dieting as primary treatment for patients struggling with weight. Recently increased research has been done on an alternative treatment method called intuitive eating (IE). Intuitive eating is defined as “the dynamic process-integrating attunement of mind, body and food” (Schlam and Guimera 2). It is characterized by reliance on and trust in one’s individual physiological hunger and satiety cues, which guide one’s food intake. Researchers have found that intuitive eating presents as a more effective way of reducing possibilities of developing certain eating disorders, building a positive psychological relationship between food and self- image, as well as eliminating the vicious circle of weight regain when compared with the traditional dieting method. The traditional method of dieting has been used for a long time among all types of people. In her research on assessing the effectiveness of intuitive eating for weight loss, Judith Camele Anglin compared a control calorie restricted group with an intuitive eating group. She found that total weight loss was statistically greater in the calories restricted group than in the intuitive eating group. The calories restricted group lost around 5.31lbs and the intuitive eating group only lost 3.38lbs by the end of the experiment. However, this study only took place over 6 weeks, which may be considered a short-term result. In the Dyke and Drinkwater study, the researchers found that dieting is generally
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