The end of over-eating

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The end of over-eating
6/10/2019

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Contents
1.Changes individuals, can make internally to take control of our eating,
overeating, and related issues...............................................................................3
2. External changes that could be made to the food industry to help reduce the
obesity epidemic................................................................................................... 3
3. Ethical principles in the context of social problem of obesity epidemic and
contribution towards formulation of social policy..................................................4
References............................................................................................................. 6

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1.Changes individuals, can make internally to take control of our eating,
overeating, and related issues.
Overeating refers to the excess of food consumed in context to the energy expended by an
individual. In general, words, eating more than required or necessary is termed as overeating.
It creates the issues or problems related to health such as obesity and weight gaining. Some
of the internal changes that an individual can stress include exercising control over emotional
eating, as it drives the person to eat more, irrespective of essential nutrition (Riiser et al.,
2015).
Moreover, they can focus upon adopting healthy eating habits, and lifestyle changes will
facilitate taking control over the eating issues. Some of the major psychological risk factors
and biological factors include maintaining control over aspects such as body dissatisfaction.
An individual must exert control on their food cravings, especially during the core time of the
day (Swinburn et al., 2015).
Making a diet plan, and focus on doing exercise is one major change that an individual
can make to control their eating, and over-eating. It will enable them making change in their
behaviour, and there on controlling the eating habits. This is essential, as focusing on positive
internal changes, will help control binge eating, other issues leading to good health and
wellbeing (Turton et al., 2016).
2. External changes that could be made to the food industry to help reduce the
obesity epidemic.
Obesity has become one of the significant health issue of the public, and it requires
the multi-disciplinary cooperation of the food industry to overcome the problem. From the
perspective of the food industry, a number of aspects or changes can be made to reduce or
control obesity epidemic (Zobel et al., 2016). First change is to be made in the food policy of
the firm or industry, and providing relevant and appropriate information to the consumers.
This determines the role of food industry to help consumers make healthy food choices.
Industry must act to promote the education about nutrition in food at various levels. They