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Project task: New Perspectives
As the young in our country become increasing fashion conscious, there is an rising group of people who resort to not eating to achieve what they perceive as the perfect figure. Hence, for this project, I would like to focus on why and how people go to the extent of emotional eating, why they behave in such a way towards food, and to understand the impact of emotions on eating. In so doing, I would like to come up with a programme, based on such methods of willing one to eat, to help anorexics change their mindset towards food, to help ease them into the routine of eating once again. It is in my area of interest to conduct a detailed study on how best to help anorexics regain their appetite for food without going to the extremes of force-feeding, by using psychological methods that people without eating disorders respond to by eating. This would be largely beneficial to anorexics as they have to first cope with their emotions before being able to change their perspectives on food. This is relevant to helping the group of people in our society who suffer from eating disorders.
Firstly, information on the eating habits of people will have to be gathered. To narrow down the research area, I would then gather information on dietary patterns of only teenagers of acceptable weight, as teenagers are more likely to be guided by their emotions to eat. These information can be found in books on nutrition, focused mainly on teenagers. Another valuable source of information on this topic would be websites such as http://weightloss.about.com/cs/emotionaleating/l/bleecues.htm which provide information on emotional eating.
Primary data of dietary patterns of teenagers will be collected through surveys, both dispatched manually and through email to our target group. Around 200-300 surveys can be done. Interviews with nutritionists and doctors on the needs of anorexics can also be carried out to provide an understanding of their needs and how best to modify such methods to suit them.
On the collection of data, the most pressing potential problem will be that of the refusal to divulge information with regards to one's dietary patterns and lying in surveys. This can be minimised by reassuring the survey taker that all information will be kept strictly confidential, and that this project is done on a solely educational purpose
Time management is imperative in this project, and this can be ensured by getting my group members to complete their tasks on time, with good quality, by means of constant reminders. The group must work hard and closely to ensure success of this project.
posted by sarangaia || 12:55 AM Monday, April 18, 2005
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1 Comments:
wah~~ you all doing this kind of topics now?! i did euthanasia last time... most of the time the five of us were laughing and crapping all the way... but coz there were 2 english experts... so~~ haa~ of course we did well!
i had a classmate who became anorexic.. haiZ~ sometimes i guess it's coz when you see everyone around you is so thin etc... you will start to feel inferior? but actually if we look closer, not everyone is thin... it's just that we tend to look more at beautiful people?
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