Factors Influencing Attitudes to Eating Behaviours Essay Plan

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AO1

• Eating can be referred to the fact it is a source of comfort, contributes to self image and is an important social function.
• Can be affected by stress:
• General Effect:  Stress changes a person's consumption of food by creating physiological changes.
• Individual Difference:  Where stress influences eating practices in particular groups of people.
• Differences may occur due to differences in childhood experiences of food attitudes towards eating or variations in biology that cause dissimilarities in vulnerability to the effects of stress. 
• Vulnerable = eating more
• Low vulnerability = eating less.

AO2

• Garg: Found that participants consumed 28 per cent more…