Health is an essential condition for human existence, contributing to complete physical, spiritual and social well-being. The topic devoted to maintaining and strengthening health into everyday life is extremely relevant in our time because the introduction of behavioral changes in health care is the prevention of diseases. A health promotion model is comprehensive and positively affects different aspects of life, including education.
A study was conducted in which the focus group consisted of young people, college students, or people just entering adulthood. The research topic was an ecological model for healthy behavior. Even with wide recognition that “the food that we consume has a strong impact on our health, consumers ’food preferences do not always lead to the best nutritional choices, according to the research arguments.” (Sogari, 2018, p. 13) This fact led scientists to look in more detail at the factors that influence poor food choices, the conditions under which it occurs, and “specific social factors”. (West, 2020, p. 455) The availability of healthy food, “promotion of physical activity”, and programs dedicated to cooking and planning healthy meals have become important conditions for choosing a healthy lifestyle in general. (Fletcher, 2018, p. 1631) The findings noted that the introduction of healthy eating habits is very important and significantly affects the productivity of people in general.
An ecological model includes certain behavioral changes, and teaching them consists in the fact that people realize good eating habits through the dissemination of information. “Common barriers to an ecological model in eating habits were time constraints, unhealthy snacking, convenience high-calorie food, stress, high prices of healthy food, and easy access to junk food”. (Sogari, 2018, p. 13) A person’s readiness for change is a key ability of our time, every day the world is improving, and in this case it is imperative to find a way to adapt to the new rhythm of life.
To conclude, nutrition has been shown to affect intellectual development and learning ability, so changing behavioral habits within an ecological model is effective and generally helps to strengthen the body.
References
Fletcher, G. F., Landolfo, C., Niebauer, J., Ozemek, C., Arena, R., & Lavie, C. J. (2018). Promoting physical activity and exercise: JACC health promotion series. Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 72(14), 1622-1639.
Sogari, G., Velez-Argumedo, C., GĂłmez, M. I., & Mora, C. (2018). College students and eating habits: A study using an ecological model for healthy behavior. Nutrients, 10(12), 1823.
West, R., Michie, S., Rubin, G. J., & AmlĂ´t, R. (2020). Applying principles of behaviour change to reduce SARS-CoV-2 transmission. Nature human behaviour, 4(5), 451-459.