Thin doesn’t always mean healthy if nutrition ignored

By Joannie Dobbs and Alan Titchenal

POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Mar 20, 2012

~~<p>Many societal pressures in our community have the potential to push individuals into unnatural and unhealthful eating habits in their drive to be thin. Abnormal thinness often is considered to be attractive, desirable and healthy. However, thinness is not equivalent to health, especially when the pursuit of thinness goes too far.</p>
<p>The basic drive to eat is part of the foundation for survival in all animals. Healthy people, of course, share this drive to consume enough food to meet both nutritional and energy needs. For our ancestors, adequate nutrition was required for the energy needed to acquire enough food and to carry out successful reproduction.</p>
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Many societal pressures in our community have the potential to push individuals into unnatural and unhealthful eating habits in their drive to be thin. Abnormal thinness often is considered to be attractive, desirable and healthy. However, thinness is not equivalent to health, especially when the pursuit of thinness goes too far.

The basic drive to eat is part of the foundation for survival in all animals. Healthy people, of course, share this drive to consume enough food to meet both nutritional and energy needs. For our ancestors, adequate nutrition was required for the energy needed to acquire enough food and to carry out successful reproduction. Login for more...