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Emme MartinMarlen Harrison ENC 11023 February 2019Being Healthy vs. Being ObsessedHow our society’s obsession with health and selfcare could be doing the opposite to our mental health and quality of life? This is something I ask myself every time I’m persuaded into buying yet another thirteen dollar green juice, usually accompanied by a six dollar ginger shot. For a young college student, nineteen dollars on a juice and some ginger isn’t exactly the smartest way I could spend my precious funds. Although in today’s Instagram ridden world of selfcare and keto diets, we are pressured into believing we need to spend our money on all things health and wellness in order to live our highest quality of life. The purpose of asking this question is to explore other alternatives one may go about living a high quality and healthy life style without spending their time and money obsessing over the latest health fads. I believe this topic needs to be explored more because the selfcare and health industries are profiting big time on the naivety of consumers who have yet to discover the balance between being healthy and enjoying life. There is actually a term for being “health obsessed”, it is called Orthorexia Nervosa. According to (Zickgraf et al., 2019), Orthorexia Nervosa is characterized by obsessions about healthy and rigid adherence to a perceived healthy diet.Whether or not being over the top healthy is actually as beneficial as the cost and effort it takes has yet to be discussed. This topic is something that interest me especially because I currently work in the modeling industry, which is flooded with girls eager to know all of the latest health and diet trends. I am constantly being bombarded with Instagram stories of models showcasing their juice collection or newest smoothie recipe. It reaches a certain point where one must ask themselves what’s the point? Is this worth staying home alone and not going out with friends because alcohol is toxic or the restaurant doesn’t have vegan options? We have reached a time where many millennials put being healthy over having fun and I would like to study the effects this could possibly have on mental health. I truly believe that if one is happy within their life, health will follow. Although, it is true that eating healthy does reap positive mental health benefits and is something everyone should practice. The correlation between eating healthy and happiness is discussed by Wahl, Villinger, Konig,Ziesemer, Schupp, and Renner in the article, “Healthy food choices are happy food choices: Evidence from a real life sample using smartphone based assessments” (Wahl et al.). In order to conduct my research, I will be surveying millennial aged individuals who follow a strict healthy diet and lifestyle and ask them their reasoning behind this lifestyle and if it improves their happiness. I will also survey another group of individuals with more relaxed eating habits and lifestyle choices and ask them how they feel they’re choices impact their mental health. I expect my findings to give me a better understanding of why people become health obsessed and if they even realize why they’re doing it. This piece of information will be crucial to my research because the basis of my question is to discover if being overly obsessed with health does more harm than good. I also plan to study the basis of what makes a healthy diet and the best way to achieve it without compromising one’s lifestyle and bank account. This will support my question immensely because it will show if it is truly necessary to be on top of trends in order to live a healthy life. Other topics I will explore are what caused the rise of this culture, it is relatively new and seemed to emerge with the rise of Instagram. Instagram was deemed the worst website for young peoples mental health in a survey conducted by the Royal Society for Public Health and the charity Young Health movement (CommunityPract,2017).This part of my paper will be particularly interesting, because it will study the effects peer pressure has on one’s lifestyle choices. In my paper I will use my knowledge of diet and exercise as well as insight into the health obsessed culture that many of my peers participate in. I think my background will give this paper an edge because it is unexpected to be coming from a young model like myself, who is also often times fooled by the clever marketing of health companies. This topic defiantly aligns with my professional goals because I am very passionate about breaking the stigma behind the so called “glamorous life” of models and Instagram stars. I also love health and knowing what is necessary for the body to function. I feel like this paper combines the two because it will allow me to discuss the mental health effects of Instagram boasting, while also narrowing down the truth behind the new wave of health culture. This will help me obtain the job I want because it is in line with my beliefs, I am not positive about what I want to do yet but I am very interested in the study of mental health as well as physical health. My Outline-IntroductionPersonal Info how I relate Background information of the topic Topics- health obsessed cultureDoes being overly healthy effect mental healthHow Instagram has influenced this Are people actually benefitting from being extremeWhat it means to be healthyHow being healthy effects mental healthHow health industries are scamming consumersThe Gap I am filling Conclusion and Wrapping it all TogetherAnnotated BibliographyInstagram “Ranked Worst for Mental Health” in Teen Survey. (2017). States News ServiceThis source gives me the details of a survey conducted on young people that concluded that Instagram was the worst social media in terms of causing issues such as anxiety, depression, loneliness, and body image issues. It also mentions that a Danish study encouraged regular Facebook users to quit for a week and reported greater satisfaction. These statistics will enhance my paper by linking the importance of Instagram and mental health. This ties into my subject because much of the health obsessed tendencies are caused by social media. Wahl, D. R., Villinger, K., Koenig, L. M., Ziesemer, K., Schupp, H. T., & Renner, B. (n.d.). Healthy food choices are happy food choices: Evidence from a real life sample using smartphone based assessments.?SCIENTIFIC REPORTS,?7.?This source examines the mental health benefits of eating healthy, contrary to the belief that junk food makes a person happy. There are lots of great facts from the study done in this article that I can use to support my paper. Zickgraf, H. F., Ellis, J. M., & Essayli, J. H. (2019). Disentangling orthorexia nervosa from healthy eating and other eating disorder symptoms: Relationships with clinical impairment, comorbidity, and self-reported food choices. Appetite, 134, 40–49. In this source, I studied the meaning of orthorexia nervosa and it’s relationship to eating habits.The study in the article concluded that sympoms related to ON were not related to eating impairment or OCD. Works Cited Instagram “Ranked Worst for Mental Health” in Teen Survey. (2017). States News Service. Retrieved from , D. R., Villinger, K., Koenig, L. M., Ziesemer, K., Schupp, H. T., & Renner, B. (n.d.). Healthy food choices are happy food choices: Evidence from a real life sample using smartphone based assessments. SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, 7. , H. F., Ellis, J. M., & Essayli, J. H. (2019). Disentangling orthorexia nervosa from healthy eating and other eating disorder symptoms: Relationships with clinical impairment, comorbidity, and self-reported food choices. Appetite, 134, 40–49. ................
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