Psychological role of food, what is it actually Bashny.Net

Parenting, politics and football are the most popular topics for debate. And if we are talking about feeding children, then there could be so many copies and broken so many from different sides of the arguments about harm (more to choose): meat, sugar, gluten, fat, carbs, etc. and, unfortunately, our view often eludes the fact that the best that you have this particular child aware of the body of the child. No one is so perfect not verified the mechanisms of hunger/saturation as infants, but as their development in society, food becomes not only physiological, but also psychological value, and much in the relations of the body with food begins to change.

Yes, there are endocrine pathology, but there are genetic factors, there are serious mental disorders, when "something goes wrong" with the body and its development. And it's always a question of internal consultation with several specialists. In many more cases we are talking about the psychological role of food and movement (or rather lack of it) in a child's life.

 





Many have heard "about the psychological roles of food," but what does that mean really?

"My love, you are not to steal from the table, wait when daddy come and we all sit down at the table, it's disrespectful!" "Masha, what does not want to eat and ate? Mom tried so hard, mom sex night standing at the stove". "A spoon for mom, for dad, for baaaaack!" Because it's not about hunger and saturation, because it's about family relationships, about guilt – "did not finish, blame the mother," about respect for loved ones – "you don't want grandma was ill and then eat it over the spoon."Food becomes a means to "clarify the relationship" — not specifically the parents, with rare exceptions, pathological sadists, acting with sincere intentions to "do better" as they used to be considered "the best". But hunger and satiety the same physiological feelings as feeling heat or cold, as the desire to go to the bathroom. As no one comes to mind to say, "so, you're four times already goes to the toilet for the fifth time to ask, this is just disrespectful!" This configuration of the body, it signals a lack of energy or Vice versa, the excess "I don't want to, I don't need it".

Of course the child can't yet sit down and say , "you Know, mom, focusing on its physiological feeling of hunger, I can say that now full. I understand that you mean well and care about me, what are you anxious because of the uneaten portions of cereal, but please, calm down, I fed again and if you get hungry, be sure to ask you for food." This message is often expressed by shouting, crying, the tantrums, the closing of the mouth with the hands in the process of defense from a spoon with porridge and tears. You can imagine how hard it is to keep the parent at this point emotions under control and look at this behavior with the angle of "maybe he's just not hungry"? It is a matter of experience and training.

Children's body is constantly changing object, it is in the way, in the process, he their energy needs for growth and development. Today's "puilasoq" suddenly, in the sky, at the thin teenager. Sometimes the child's body, for example, before a growth spurt, receives signals of the endocrine system on the accumulation of fat – that is the resource of energy for growth and if this time to intervene with diet of abstract aesthetic reasons – the consequences can be very different – ranging from a lack of nutrients for the adequate formation of the immune system, to eating disorders – anorexia, bulimia, compulsive overeating...

Everyone knows that the process of growing up is when "foreign" becomes an adult "internal", when "external" her "no", "bad" and "don't do that" becomes an internal "mother in the head." Isn't that why some people look not perfectly empty plates causes the inner feeling of unknown anxiety, a vague "not allowed" and the only way to get rid of him is to finish, but I do not want? Isn't that why in moments of loneliness we turn to food to symbolically reclaim the resource family? Isn't that why people who are overweight, are used for orientation in the world of food is anything but their physiological needs of hunger and fullness just because these regulatory mechanisms have been lost?

Of course, family dinner is a tradition. But what is the meaning of this tradition? Not replaced if a content form? If you leave one with a family hour to communicate, but fill it not food, and really good communication? That would be bad, if the child will eat when he is hungry? Does this idea of anxiety? Why? The answer to this question may be very necessary to you, your inner small child, who was once desperate to hear from mom's response, why can't I eat what I want when I want and how I want. published

 

P. S. And remember, only by changing their consumption — together we change the world! ©

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