Journal of Obesity & Weight Loss Therapy
Open Access

Abstract

Death is the inevitable end of the life ��? that is what we perceive most often during our lifetime. Psychological analyses converge to demonstrate that human beings struggle to integrate it as a personal reality. In this work we attempted to focus on the linkage between our conceptions of death, our difficulty in adjusting to it as a species and how it might affect us in our eating habit. First we surveyed historical and philosophic perspectives on the meaning of death sampling some of the broad field of psychological research on death attitudes in a variety of cultures and subcultures. Then, we analyzed the traditional concept of death as a potential factor producing adjustment problems. Finally, we dragged our argument towards the probability that a pessimistic understanding of death as a phenomenon could be a hidden factor behind our contemporary unhealthy eating behaviors, just like it can be behind many other psychopathologies.

Biography

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