Write an essay on Behavior and Disease
Write an essay on Behavior and Disease
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Behavioral change are methods that change an individual’s personal habits and lifestyle to prevent diseases or injuries. People develop negative
behavioral habits, such as unhealthy eating habits, smoking, drinking,
substance abuse, and lack of physical fitness that negatively influences their
health, such as cancer, cardiovascular disease, injuries, respiratory and other
chronic diseases. There are many factors that contribute to why the behavior
is hard to change, such as lack of motivation, lack of knowledge, lack of
resources, lack of healthcare access, socioeconomic status, spiritual and
cultural factors, behavioral, social and environmental determinant (Glanz et
al., 2015). For example, low-income families eat unhealthy foods because they
are cheaper and are easily accessible, but results in obesity and cardiovascular
diseases (Bouton, 2015). Another factor is having a negative supportive group
and a negative environmental factor. For example, if a recovering alcoholic is
surrounded by peers that continuously drink around them, then it will be hard
for the recovering alcoholic to maintain abstinence from drinking and old
habits will be triggered.
The health behavior that I struggle with is physical fitness and eating
vegetables and healthy food. The contributing factors to my unhealthy
behavior are lack of motivation and my mental state. I think I am allergic to
exercise because my body breaks out in hives if I am exercising or partaking in
physical activity that is suppose to improve my health. However, if I am doing
physical activity for fun nothing happens to me. Therefore, I am not fit like I
want to be in order to maintain a healthy lifestyle. Additionally, I hate
vegetables and I do not eat them which combines with my lack of physical
activity is bad for my health. To change this behavior, I try to incorporate the
only two vegetables I eat which are cucumber and cooked carrots into my diet
and I try to manipulate the taste of other vegetables I do not like by pouring
gravy on them. Also, I make sure I eat healthy like only drinking water, no
soda, limited sugar, limited salt, only eat red meat on special occasion, no
drinking, no smoking, and reducing fat and oil intake. For physical fitness, I am
in the process of getting a physical trainer to help me set up an exercise plan
and get my body fit and healthy.
This personal struggle can help me to understand the point of view of why the
individuals are facing hardship in changing their behavior and develop
methods in creating interventions that will contribute to improving their
health and changing their negative lifestyle.
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