Before moving on my own in State College, it was the social norm at my house to eat healthy and to exercise regularly. However, now that I living on my own, and in college the social norm has changed drastically. The social norm now is about saving money, and saving time. When starting college everyone heard about the freshman 30, which is a result of the change in social norms. The social norm is to ordering out more, and going out to drinking alcohol. The social norm is centered around the lifestyle you live. Currently, I know my lifestyle is not the healthiest, but I do try to be conscientious about my choices in food and choice the most nutritional choice. I know my future self will not want me to continue with this lifestyle. This lifestyle for a prolonged period will lead to health issues.
Just like college students, the American lifestyle has changed to being faster paced. In today’s society is it faster to go out and get food from a restaurant, even if it is not fast food. However, restaurant meals are costly, very high in calories and you can do not know what is actually used their preparation. It is a social norm to overlook nutrition to be able to have more time. In the module, it talked about how important nutrition is to the body, and that without proper nutrition it could lead to death. In a fast paced lifestyle nutrition is suffering, people are not getting the correct about of water, energy, proteins, vitamins, and minerals. This is leading to many health problems, the leading health problem is obesity.
Hi Katy, I thought this was very interesting because I never got to experience this. I have always lived from home as I was around here. I’ve always tried to exercise and eat regularly, and since I never moved away yet I still do these things on a daily basis. Although I have heard and witnessed many people go through exactly what you have described.
Here is a link to my blog if you want to check it out! http://sites.psu.edu/geog30/2016/03/04/module-6-kevin-hosterman/
Hello Katy my name is Lucas Skiba and I’m from Boalsburg, Pennsylvania. Your post really caught my eye because I too also know the struggle of living at home to being on your on. All the home cooked meals and fully stocked fridge full of nutritious food is also a quality essential to life. Then when your finally taking care of yourself on your own you realize the struggle it is to keep yourself healthy. Its hard to make time to exercise and make nutritious and healthy meals that are affordable and not time consuming to make. But your right when you say these unhealthy social norm food choices of these college diets are leading to obesity because it is. Here is a link to my module and system diagram i talk about bacon being a breakfast social norm. Thanks. http://geog030.dutton.psu.edu/2016/03/03/module-6-food-choice-and-social-norms-ljs5300-lucas-skiba/