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Lead Section - Chris Blomstrand, Amanda Marinucci
Nutrition psychology (NP) is the psychological study of how cognitive choices, such as meal decisions, influence nutrition, psychological health, and overall health. Nutrition psychology seeks to understand the relationship between nutritional behavior and mental health/well-being. Nutrition psychology is a sub-field of psychology and more specifically of health psychology. NP may be applied to numerous different fields including but not limited to: psychology, dietetics, nutrition, marketing, and genetics. NP is a fairly new field with a brief history that has already started to contribute information and knowledge to psychology. There are two main areas of controversy within nutrition psychology. The first area of controversy is that the topic can be viewed as nutrition having an impact on psychological functions or can be viewed as psychological choices and behavior exerting influence on nutrition and health. The second controversy being the defining of what is "healthy" or "normal" as related to nutrition.

Chris Blomstrand (talk) 16:09, 7 April 2016 (UTC) Amarinucci16 (talk) 16:10, 7 April 2016 (UTC) Chris Blomstrand (talk) 17:53, 29 April 2016 (UTC) Amarinucci16 (talk) 04:36, 29 April 2016 (UTC)

Origins and history
Nutrition psychology is a newer branch of psychology, starting roughly 20 years ago, with a brief history. Though nutrition psychology is fairly new, information pertaining to NP such as feeding behavior has a longer standing history in culture. Feeding behavior and patterns influence nutrition and general well being. The psychology of why individuals feed and nutritionally behave the way that they do can decide their overall long-term health. Those who study NP are nutrition psychologists and they often have a background in dietetics and psychology. Areas of study for nutrition psychologists can include any behavior, especially feeding behavior or diet, that can impact nutritional health or lead to nutritional deficiencies or diseases. While nutrition psychology is being studied, there is a need for more information and research. Amarinucci16 (talk) 04:36, 29 April 2016 (UTC)

Applications
Nutrition psychology is interconnected to many other fields including but not limited to: psychology, dietetics, nutrition, and marketing. The application of NP to marketing is examined by companies in an effort to influence consumer feeding habits. An example of the application of NP to the field of marketing is companies offering and promoting healthier foods which are thought to impact consumers’ body image in a positive manner. Companies such as Subway have employed and thrived using the tactic of offering and promoting healthier foods http://www.youbeauty.com/nutrition/food-advertising//ref> Another example of NP being applied to related fields is exhibited in new neuroscience research, studying the effects of different diets on neural signaling and transmission.

The Biopsychosocial model of behavior is a wide view that attributes the physical health of individuals to biological, social, and psychological factors. NP plays a role in the biological facet of this model. The combination of the biopsychosocial model and NP has been applied in a variety of ways, but generally focuses on how feeding behaviors impact our psychological and social health, and vice versa. This is a growing area of research that will continue to broaden our knowledge of nutrition psychology. Chris Blomstrand (talk) 17:51, 29 April 2016 (UTC)

Controversies
One of the main areas of controversy within NP as a science is trying to define what healthy is, across all populations and cultures. Everybody digests things differently and their bodies in turn produce different results from the same foods. This fundamental difference in people makes getting a definition or an average for what healthy is very difficult. A second controversy involving NP boils down to wether it should be considered the study of feeding behaviors impacting psychological functioning, or wether it should be considered psychological functioning impacting feeding behaviors. Different branches of psychology such as neuroscience and behaviorism may consider the topic of NP from different points of view. Depending on which area is being studied both views are nutrition psychology and define the topic ~ ~

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 * Psychology
 * Health Psychology
 * Nutrition
 * Marketing
 * Dietetics
 * Food

Lead Section- Chris Blomstrand
Nutrition Psychology (NP) is the scientific study of how nutritional habits, such as meal decisions, impact psychological health. Nutritional psychology seeks to understand the relationship between diet and mental health/well-being. Nutritional Psychologists often have a background in dietetics and psychology. NP can be applied to many different fields including but not limited too: Psychology, Dietetics, nutrition, marketing, and many others. The effects of NP on marketing can be seen through companies trying to offer healthier foods that are thought to make you feel better about your body image. Companies such as Subway have employed and thrived using this information. NP is a fairly new field with a brief history but has already started to contribute new information and knowledge to psychology. For example neuroscience is implementing nutrition by studying the effects that different diets have on neural signaling and transmission. Many of the current controversies in NP deal with an issue that almost every psychology field deals with is defining what is "healthy" or "normal". This issue boils down to individual differences in most fields however NP can also introduce cultural feeding habits and how they impact mental health.
 * Why NT rather than NP? Explain what this means. J.R. Council (talk) 21:54, 29 March 2016 (UTC)

Chris Blomstrand (talk) 02:02, 22 March 2016 (UTC)Chris Blomstrand

Lead Section- Amanda Marinucci
Nutrition Psychology is the psychological study of how cognitive choices and behavior influence nutrition and may impact overall health. Nutritional psychology is a narrowed spectrum or branch of psychology and even more specifically of health psychology which closely examines the relationship between psychology and nutritional behaviors. Nutrition psychology is related to numerous different fields including but not limited to: sociology, psychology, dietetics, medicine, marketing, and nutrition. Certain psychological behaviors can impact nutritional health and lead to nutritional deficiencies or diseases which can be areas of study for nutritional psychologists. Being a relatively new branch of health psychology, the topic of nutritional psychology does not have a long history but is developing and contributing to psychology. An area of controversy within health psychology is that the topic can be viewed as nutrition having an impact on psychological functions or can be viewed as psychological choices and behavior exerting influence on nutrition and health. Different branches of psychology such as neuroscience and behaviorism may consider the topic of nutrition psychology in those different views. Depending on which area is being studied both views are nutrition psychology and define the topic, from different standpoints.

Amarinucci16 (talk) 04:31, 30 March 2016 (UTC)

== One problem with the nutrition psychology page on wikipedia is the lack of references to any research or any findings that have been conducted on nutrition psychology. The page states the other fields that are involved with the study of nutrition psychology and actually explains how marketing plays a role in nutrition psychology; however, it does not state anything about the contributions that the field of nutrition psychology has made to the field of psychology. == My first question for you Dr.Council is should we try and find information pertaining to the study of genetics on nutrition psychology? In other words should we add a section strictly covering the effect of genetics on nutrition? Or is that not related enough to the field of psychology? My second question is could I use my book that I used for Dr.Hilmert's class "health psychology" as a reference for this page? or are the fields of nutrition psychology and health psychology divergent?

Chris Blomstrand (talk) 19:36, 27 February 2016 (UTC) Chris BlomstrandChris Blomstrand (talk) 19:36, 27 February 2016 (UTC)

Amanda's List
The issue with the current nutrition psychology page is that it is currently just a stub page with almost no information besides the lead. The lead does not include reliable references for the information provided. The articles listed under the 'Notes' section are mostly irrelevant and do not provide any concrete information pertaining to nutrition psychology.

One of the questions I have is could you maybe point us in the right direction of what we should consider including on the page? Nutrition psychology seems to be a pretty broad topic so I am just wondering what aspects you think to be the most important that we would want to cover on the page or what you would like to see us include?

The second question I have is that nutrition psychology does include some major sub-topics such as eating disorders, obesity, negative or positive body image, etc, which are normally consequences of eating behavior or nutrition behavior, how much information should we include on those types of subtopics or should we include them at all?

Amarinucci16 (talk) 21:10, 28 February 2016 (UTC)

To-Do List
-Choose which outline we think will be the best way to organize our article, which makes the article flow well

-Divide up tasks into manageable pieces of individual work that can then come together as a whole, well-written article

-Find more sources (each of us) to contribute valuable information for the article and add information to the outline- start filling it in- truly developing the article

-Review any and all additions we make to the article and evaluate the article as a whole piece throughout the entire creation process- using constructive criticism or peer revisions to help each other out with our individual pieces and helping them to mesh well together

-Have our article reviewed by our peers that are not a part of our group to get a fresh opinion

-Find more sources that state the importance of nutrition psychology

-Find more research that shows the significant contributions that nutrition psychology has made to the broader field of psychology

-Create a lead section that instantly draws the readers attention, but at the same point is informative and efficient

-Find more ways in which nutrition psychology can be applied to other professional fields not just limited to psychology

Amarinucci16 (talk) 04:18, 22 March 2016 (UTC)

Chris Blomstrand Chris Blomstrand (talk) 18:39, 28 March 2016 (UTC)

Outline
The article would have a lead section at the top which obviously would give a brief description of nutrition psychology as well as an overview of the content of the article. For the first content paragraph of the article I would include the basics of nutrition psychology that are the most apparent and helpful to knowing and having a basic understanding of nutrition psychology. In the paragraph following, I would briefly describe different subtopics such as information on how the different types of relationships between food or diet and human psychology (any disorders that can occur and have links to their specific wiki pages, implications of such relationships, and/or influence on general well being), the fields that nutrition psychology can be useful in application and why nutrition psychology can be useful, information on what research has been conducted already in the field of nutrition psychology and what is yet to be done, in that order. Lastly I would include information and links on other articles that are related to nutrition psychology and very lastly references.

When looking at the pamphlets we received in class I noticed that they included a section on organizing articles. In the section it has the article of a psychological concept, which is what nutrition psychology is, set up starting with a lead, followed by context on the concept, followed by theories and evidence on the concept, and lastly having a section on implications which I think would be wise to follow to help us format our article. Amarinucci16 (talk) 05:33, 30 March 2016 (UTC)

Amarinucci16 (talk) 04:18, 22 March 2016 (UTC)

New References
I found this book on nutrition psychology to be helpful and overall full of information that will benefit our article.

Amarinucci16 (talk) 04:18, 22 March 2016 (UTC)

Dividing Up Tasks
I am not sure if we can divide up the tasks yet until everyone contributes to the To-Do List, Outline, and New References sections. If I could choose I would like to work on the first content paragraph of the article which in my outline I described as the basics of nutrition psychology or knowledge which would give information on nutrition psychology that would allow the audience the basic understanding of the topic and include facts to promote that understanding. I think that we should each come up with maybe four or five more references. We will all be doing leads as that is assignment 6 and then we can critique and pick our favorite parts from each lead to mesh them into the best lead for our article. I think we could divide up the other paragraphs that I included in the outline. Or if either of you has a different perspective of what you think our outline should be we can divide up your outline. Once everyone has an outline and to-do list it will be easier to divide up the tasks equally. I am fully committed to pulling my weight in writing this article and making it the best it can be before this class is over. Amarinucci16 (talk) 05:04, 22 March 2016 (UTC)