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Asked by anon-325943 to Jake on 17 Jun 2022.
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Jake Sallaway-Costello answered on 17 Jun 2022:
A very interesting question! Nutritional psychology kind of works in two ways…
1) The effects of behaviour on nutrition, like how and why we decide what to eat. This is the part of the specialism I focus on. I’m fascinated how people make such different decisions about food and the massive list of influences on those decisions.
2) The effects of nutrition on behaviour, like how nutrients support mental health. This I’m less interested in, mostly because it’s focused around the brain which I don’t understand at all! But there’s also part of this which is about how good makes us feel, like how body size influences mental health. So, lots of interesting stuff either way!
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Maxine commented on :
Some people do study that. Studying eating behaviour is a really diverse topic. Some people look at how hormones affect what we eat, and some look at how our diet affects our behaviour. It’s a very diverse field so you can find what you’re interested in and study that. And you can change your mind too. I started off looking at how children’s eating behaviour is affected by their friends. I still look at this now but also look at eating behaviour in adults and how other parts of the environment affect behaviour. For example, if cakes are placed closer to the till we’re more likely to eat them than of fruit was closer. Also if we slice up fruit we’re more likely to eat that than when it’s whole.