Healthy Decision Making

Reflecting back on my life health decision was influenced by my values and attitudes. They played a significant role as it helped me accept and adopt healthy eating lifestyle. This has been helpful as it has helped to minimize the risk associated with poor eating habits. These individual factors have led to an increasing independence thus strengthening my factors. Great support came from the family members who were acting as reminder agents as they constantly reminded me of the way of healthy eating. Family as a major influence they engaged in healthy eating promoting a healthy lifestyle behavior that I constantly practice. However, there were challenges as some of my peers were tempting me to go their way of the tasty fast foods that they are fond of.

Heart disease, cancer, and tuberculosis are strongly related to behavior. Despite that there is other factors that cause them a significant portion is caused by the different lifestyles adopted in eating. The changes experienced between 1990 and 2010 in the top ten cause of death can be explained as a result of increasing changes witnessed in poor eating and the change in behavior (Brehm-Curtis, 2014). The reduction of deaths can be associated with the increasing awareness of the people to adopt healthy eating by outline the dangers of unhealthy eating (Brehm-Curtis, 2014).  Social and cultural behavior have a great impact on health as there is shared values, attitudes, traditions and beliefs that affect how people adopt their living lifestyle. This creates a perception of the people of how they should practice healthy eating. It is true to say that social pressure creates an idealized image of what health is which may lead to the adoption of positive health decisions.

 

Reference

Brehm-Curtis, B. (2014). Psychology of health and fitness: Applications for behavior change. Philadelphia : F.A. Davis Company