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Jackson, Elizabeth G. – Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, 2008
Chronic dieting distorts eating behaviors and causes weight escalation. Desperation about losing weight results in pursuit of extreme weight loss measures. Instead of offering yet another diet, nutrition educators can teach chronic dieters (dieting casualties) to develop eating competence. Eating Order, a 13-week class for chronic dieters based on…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Eating Disorders, Eating Habits, Health Behavior
Priest, Simon; Martin, Peter – 1985
A model to explain the adventure experience and to relate adventure experience to adventure education uses risk and competence as diagram axes with experimentation/exploration, adventure, peak adventure, misadventure, and disaster/devastation completing the framework. The model assumes that peak adventure, the point at which personal competence…
Descriptors: Adventure Education, Behavior Change, Behavior Patterns, Competence