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We will introduce excerpts from past musubi magazines and books published by Seishoku Publishing.
The 6th is "Can you change your eating behavior (interview with Dr. Shoko Yamanaka)" from "Musubi Magazine June XNUMX" (XNUMX episodes).
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Entered graduate school after becoming a registered dietitian with an interest in psychology in high school
There is a technique called the "Baum test" that diagnoses a person's psychological state and personality by letting them freely draw a picture of a tree on drawing paper and examining how the trees grow, how the leaves grow, and how the trees grow.Mr. Yamanaka became interested in psychology when he learned about the test when he was in high school, and studied mainly experimental psychology at Doshisha University.
After graduating from university, she got a job and returned to Japan after studying abroad for half a year.
When Yamanaka saw a young actress who clearly had an eating disorder, she thought, ``There may be a surprisingly large number of people who have an eating disorder triggered by a broken heart.''
Around that time, Ms. Yamanaka decided to review her own eating habits, and began studying nutrition at Kobe Shoin Women's Junior College, eventually becoming a registered dietitian like her mother.
The reason why I started researching food behavior was when I worked as an assistant for a year in the Department of Human Life Sciences at Kobe Shoin Women's University. How about that?” was the advice from a professor in the same department of life sciences.
“I am who I am today because I specialize in two fields: psychology and nutrition, and I am truly grateful.”
Eating behavior is influenced by various factors.
Eating behavior may sound pompous, but according to Mr. Yamanaka, it is "not a major subject" in psychological research.
This is because even a single food item is diverse and contains various factors, making it difficult to control factors.
Of course, changing people's eating behavior is not easy.
For example, let's say you tell a diabetic patient, ``If you eat cake, your blood sugar level will rise too much, so please refrain from eating it.''
The more you try to put up with cake, the more you want to eat cake.I think everyone has had a similar experience at least once.If you're fairly strong-willed, you might be able to hold back, but most of the time, the more you try to hold back, the more cravings you'll have, and you won't be able to hold back.
In psychology, this is called the paradoxical effect of inhibition. This is demonstrated by the famous polar bear experiment conducted by the academic Webner.
Eating problems are more common with higher education, but it is difficult to change eating behavior
There was also a compelling reason for Mr. Yamanaka to think about how he could change his eating behavior.
Eating behavior becomes strange, and as it progresses, it gradually falls into a pathological state.Eating disorders are one of them, but Mr. Yamanaka says, "Because eating disorders are treated as diseases, a lot of research is done in the medical field."
Eating disorders are sometimes life-threatening when they become serious, but medical facilities are available for treatment.
However, even if you have an eating disorder, you will not be diagnosed with an eating disorder unless you go to a medical institution.In reality, there are quite a lot of people in this "gray zone", and the reality is that they are suffering alone.
"Actually, when I collected data on students at a women's university, I found that about 30% of the students had a strong tendency toward eating disorders. I think that about 10% of the students are likely to have an eating disorder, especially in developed countries. It is said that it is common among highly educated women.”
You may be surprised that so many women are worried about eating. In this case, the person is neither fat nor thin, and it is difficult to tell from the outside.”
In addition to dealing with people who have been diagnosed with eating disorders and other illnesses, we also need to focus on the large number of people who are likely to become so in the near future.
However, no matter how much I explained that it was for my health, I said, "Young people don't get it. Even if they aren't young, it doesn't get across to people who haven't had any problems. It was a reality.
Therefore, Mr. Yamanaka thought, "If possible, I would like to change the eating behavior of people who are not sick."
Conscious "explicit attitudes" and unconscious "implicit attitudes"
How, then, can human behavior be changed?
Our actions are determined by our attitudes.There are two types of attitudes: conscious [explicit attitudes] and non-conscious [implicit attitudes], both of which affect behavior.Mr. Yamanaka pointed out the characteristics of each as follows.
[Overt attitude]
・Examine and consider various information, and draw conclusions with logical thinking
・You can consciously change things along the way.be intentional
・Inefficient because it takes time to scrutinize information
・(As an example) When you see a cake, you perceive it as ``high cream, high fat, and high calorie.''
[Latent attitude]
・ Something like intuition that is not conscious
-Difficult to control
- Extremely fast and efficient
・(As an example) When we see a cake, we feel “comfort” and think “it looks delicious”, which evokes the desire to “eat” and causes the behavior of eating.
Until now, the focus has been on appealing only to manifest attitudes.However, there is a limit to directly influencing individual consciousness to encourage ideal behavior, and as the polar bear experiment shows, it can even lead to the opposite effect.
Mr. Yamanaka focused on latent attitudes.
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Sachiko Yamanaka
Associate professor at Ikenobo Junior College.He is a PhD (Psychology).He is also a part-time lecturer at Kobe Shoin Women's College Faculty of Human Sciences and Kyoto Tachibana University Faculty of Human Development. In 1991, she graduated from Doshisha University, majoring in psychology. After working for a private company for three years, she went to study in France for half a year. In 3 she entered Kobe Shoin Women's Junior College.After giving birth and taking a leave of absence from school, she graduated from the same junior college in 97, majoring in food and nutrition, and obtained a license as a nutritionist. In 2000 she obtained her registered dietitian license. In 2002, he worked as an assistant in the Department of Life Sciences at Kobe Shoin Women's Gakuin University, completed the first half of the doctoral course at the Graduate School of Human Sciences at Kobe College, and completed the second half of the doctoral course at the Graduate School of Letters, Doshisha University.He took up his post at Ikenobo University in 05 and has been teaching public health, food hygiene, and food science to students who want to become confectionery hygienists.
