Browsing by Author "Wilenius, Iiris"

Abstract Aims. The aims of this study was to seek new information about Finnish pleasure eating habits. I answered my two study questions using descriptive literature review as my method. The aim of my first study question was to find out why Finnish people eat delicacy and the aim of my second study question was to find out ways to reduce pleasure eating. The most important words in my study were pleasure eating, physical health, social health, psychic health, emotional eating, obesity, food recommendations, food pyramid, coincidences and pleasure. This study was needed because new Finnish FinTerveys 2017 survey showed that obesity has increased among Finnish people. Methods. As my method I used descriptive literature review. As my sources were thesis, re-searches, nonfiction works, articles, internet publications and also textbooks. Before I searched sources I defined the most important words and decided my two study questions. I separated answers to physical, psychic and social dimensions because all dimensions have factors that make Finnish eat pleasure food. Results and conclusions. There are several causes that have an effect on Finnish people´s pleas-ure eating habits. Some situations were celebrated with delicacy or love were showed for other people or for him-/herself with them. The main point of eating delicacy was to get pleasure. Emotional eater eats not because he/she is hungry but because to suppress unpleasant feelings. At those moments food choices are usually unhealthy. There was physical explanation why del-icacy gives pleasure. Sweet was the flavor that people liked naturally the most. Eating delicacy was also part of the surrounding food culture. In those cases, it seems to be difficult to refuse eating because of social pressure and people eat those certain delicacy to show that they are a part of the surrounding culture. The more people know about what food contains, healthy eating and the more motivated the person is to decrease his/her pleasure eating the more he/she succeed to decrease it or change unhealthy choices to healthier alternatives. Regular meal rhythm seem to be important to prevent horrible hunger and reckless eating at afternoon Also food choices that keep blood sugar levels steady help to reduce the lust of sweet food. Pleasure eating in social events was harder to reduce because of the social pressure. Also emotional eating was hard to reduce because it demands dealing emotions and observe his/her own eating habits.