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Learning Activity 4 Evidence: Consolidation Activity A. What To Do?
Learning Activity 4 Evidence: Consolidation Activity A. What To Do?
A. What to do?
Record a three minutes video expressing to what extent you agree or disagree with
the article “Food addiction can lead to death” by Paul Wilson using adverbs,
adverbial clauses, phrasal verbs, idioms, future perfect and other functions
practiced during this learning activity.
B. How to do it?
Food has been described as ambrosia and the elixir of life. For some, eating is a
biological necessity while for others it is a passion that can turn into an obsession.
Experts define food addiction to be a disorder where the addict is preoccupied
with food, the availability of food, and the pleasure of eating. There are three
recognized food addictions:
Overeating. Overeating is a condition where the addict has no control over the
amount or the number of times he eats. The person has no concept of the
servings a person must eat. The overeater indulges in uncontrolled eating
binges. Because overeating causes the individual to take in more calories than
the metabolism can process, this food addiction leads to obesity. Obese
people are prone to hypertension, diabetes, heart diseases, arthritis, and
cancer.
Anorexia Nervosa: Anorexics fear weight gain and, thus, starve themselves.
Typically, anorexics are obsessed with weight gain and body shape and, like
bulimics, exhibit obsessive behaviours to achieve a particular body image.
Their notions of the perfect body and often distorted sense of their own bodies
make this disorder as much psychological as it is the menstrual cycle, hair
loss, unhealthy skin pallor, and dehydration.
Here are some signs that you or someone you know may have one of the
aforementioned food-related pathologies.
Uncontrolled cravings for particular foods. Some are addicted to sweets, others
to soft drinks, yet others to coffee.
Continuous or frequent eating. No fixed meal times an addict will eat
throughout the day.
Sharpened hunger on consumption of specific foods.
Excessive eating prompted by anxiety, nervousness.
Low sugar blood sugar, headaches, stomach grumbles.
Withdrawal symptoms.
Fatigue.
Extreme irritations.
Intolerance to foods.
Feelings of guilt at having eaten.
Even if you have a doubt that you may be a food addict, you should seek help.
Nip the problem in the bud before it grows into something unmanageable and
serious. You must consult a nutritionist, doctor, psychologist, an eating addiction
center or specialist. There are programs run by groups like Overeaters
Anonymous that run 12-step programs which are extremely beneficial.1
2. Decide if you agree or disagree with the article, make notes to explain your
opinion and record a video expressing your point of view. Below you will find a
model.
1
Wilson, P. (2006). Food addiction can lead to death. Consultado el 30 de septiembre de 2015, en
http://www.articlegeek.com/health/weight_loss/food-addiction-lead-to-death.htm
(Model Script – To be recorded)
Being in agreement or disagreement with the text described above is not the
only reason that this article can be found, I am in a middle point where I can
be more attracted by the positive part that the article has, which is to show
all and each of the aspects that arise from food addiction, eating can be
presented as a biological necessity and it is so for every human being it is
essential to eat food to subsist in life. For some it may become an
obsession, it is true, but that obsession is not only linked to a mental
paradigm but an internal condition of metabolism, in particular I do not think
that food addiction is a disorder and I think it is a condition of adaptability of
the Being human in the face of the conditions that life presents or the
purchasing power that one has about food, the proverb says "the more you
have, the more you want." Eating disorder can understand if not only as an
hourly disorder but also as a disorder in the proportions of each of the foods
including proteins, carbohydrates, flours and others, the system of each
human being is a complete world, the ability to process these foods. And
feeding and discarding is a matter of metabolism, it may be closely linked to
hypertension, diabetes, heart disease, arthritis and possibly in the worst
case of cancer, there are several types of problems, bulimia nervosa,
anorexia nervosa. and among others, regardless of the condition that can
even be explained, there are signs that give prior notice to the conditions
that can be acquired can be a craving for uncontrolled continuous feeding,
frequent exacerbated hunger in certain types of food, excessive food due to
stress, anxiety, nervousness, low level blood sugar symptoms abstinence
fatigue extreme irritations among many others that can be considered as
conditions that lead to the bad habit of food To conclude we could specify
that the conditions can be avoided and go quickly to a control where the
amount of food that is they must consume
When you finish your work, send the file to your instructor through the platform as
follows:
Criterios de evaluación
Describe situaciones empleando clausulas adverbiales de tiempo y opinión
teniendo en cuenta la estructura y el vocabulario requerido.