How effective are health promotion programmes?
Are there social explanations for health problems?
What’s the Biopsychological model of health and well-being?
These are just a few of the interesting and important questions that we will be exploring in this book as we explore what health psychology is and how it affects us.
So, join me as together we explore the fascinating world of health psychology in this book with an intriguing conversational tone that clearly breakdown and critically evaluates concepts and theories so everyone can enjoy the wonders of psychology… and not have a headache at the end!
This book is avialable in both ebook and paperback edition and the ebook is published very wide and avialable is in a lot of countries and is selling rather well and as a result of this i would like to further my market reach by translating it into other languages so that others can enjoy and love psychology i do.
Moving onto our first cause of obesity, we’ll be looking at the hormone: leptin and the biology of addiction to explain obesity.
Hormones:
Leptin is a hormone that’s involved in regulating energy intake and outtake. It does this by stopping and giving you hunger.
For example, when your Leptin levels are low the hormone tells the body that little or no fat is being stored. Making you feel hungry.
However, when you overeat your leptin levels are boosted so you don’t feel hungry anymore.
Although, some research suggests that it’s actually how the brain responds to their Leptin signals rather than the levels themselves.
As research found that only a minority of obese people had low levels; that should encourage overeat; instead research found that many obese people have increased levels of Leptin.
Therefore, suggesting that it’s not the production or amount of Leptin in the body that’s the problem but how the brain responds to these level that causes obese.
Biology of addiction:
Personally, this is an interesting one because before I read this one section of health psychology about two years ago. I never really thought of fats as drugs, but you should be able to see the link after this section.
Addiction leading to obesity is done in the following way:
When you eat fats and sugary foods your brain secretes dopamine as a reward for you. This makes you feel amazing.
Then you continue to eat this type of food so you can continue to get this rush. Similar to drugs.
Then over time your brain and body builds up a tolerance to these foods and stops producing dopamine.
Therefore, you eat more and more of these foods to get the same rush.
In the end, as a result of you having to eat so much in order to get this rush.
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