PSYC 180 Lecture Notes - Whole Food, Migraine, Megavitamin Therapy

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Myths, controversies and placebo effects in diet and food culture. Seeing the label, carbonation, environment and personal experience with food has to do with it as well, not just the chemicals in the food. Cam (complementary and alternative medicine) treatments = placebos. Only two common lifestyle habits influence long-term health more than dietary choices: smoke and other tobacco use, excessive alcohol consumption. Many factors contribute for food choices: convenience, advertising, availability, economy, emotional comfort, habit, etc. Placebo effects in food allergies and addictions. Food aversions: bad experiences with food will make you not want to eat that food again. Food taboos: nothing to do with personal experience; instead it has to do with what your culture tells you whether you should eat bacon or not, etc. Any drug effect is the sum of the patient and the care provider in the micro-context, which is in the macro-context.

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