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Causes of Resistance to Healthy Eating Trends - Coggle Diagram
Causes of Resistance to Healthy Eating Trends
Time Pressure
Meal Prep. requires a decent amount of time. Even if you're free during the weekend it would consume your resting time.
Takeaway of fast foods is much faster and easy to clean up. Relieving people of the mental load it causes.
Lack of time due to work/school causing working people to depend on fast and easy-to-get processed food.
Taste
It would take a bit of time to get used to the taste of healthy food which requires dedication and patience.
Expectation plays a big role because people over-expect healthy food being tasty and it turns out otherwise so the overall interest gets lost.
Healthy products may taste bland most of the time compared to processed foods with highly added sugars and fats.
Psychological
Addiction to certain foods as they contain alot of sugars and fats which may cause withdrawal symptoms when trying to eat healthy.
Food Neophobia, which is the resistance to trying new types of food because of fear of disgust or going through a bad experience.
Binge Eating due to stress, general overload, and depression. These are all factors that could lead someone to emotional/comfort eating.
Habits
Snaking most of the time creates the illusion of eating less in a sitting, however eating more than enough at the end of the day.
Unhealthy habits during childhood like drinking cola or juice instead of water when thirsty carries on to adult life.
Procrastination and laziness might lead to not managing meals, therefore skipping them and eating more later on.
Media
Unrealistic cheat meals over the internet creating the idea of excisive eating during rest days of a diet.
Influencers that advocate made up deits for more clout and a wider audience that isn't backed by any sceintific source or research.
Ads directed toward childern and teenagers which could affect their deit choices and their overall health.
Costly
The cost of food waste playes a role as healthy food spoils faster than processed foods leading to discourgement of buying healthy products later on.
Low income workers find healthy food as a luxury and fast food as a necessity beacuse of the price and the feeling of fullness fast food provides.
Healthy products are mostly expensive/overpriced in comparison to fast food which is cheaper.