The Skinny on Obesity (Ep. 6): A Fast -Paced Fast Food Life

<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0WdRhau_No>

This YouTube video was about how stress effects eating behaviours of many people. When people feel stress for example like the anxiety of losing a job or having medical care bills to pay for, people tend to run for food to get rid of their stress. Stress has similar functions as pheromone, and it stimulates eating habits. Having stress, we crave for dense calorites and we eat food as a reward. The more stress, the more rewarding the food gets. A community called Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction helps people who have trouble with food change their mental filter and help recognize how to control their appetite. This community's purpose is not to help people loose weight but to promote a better relationship with food.

I think that stress is something that everyone has but eating too much is unhealthy. When I feel irritated, I tend to eat something sweet, but I always try to get a balance of snacks and meals. I think that people in the U.S. are more obese than people in Japan are. I think this is because of the differences in food culture. The food in the States are in large proportions and because that is natural for Americans, they consume it with no doubt. I think that making smaller sizes of food is one way from getting people overweight.