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My name is Kayla, i'm currently in school for the Associates Degree in Integrative health, I'm graduating next semester and I have 2 beautiful huskys.

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Social media platforms often showcase popular food trends, such as clean eating, veganism, or specific diets. Which can lead to students feeling more compelled to try these trends - affecting there diet.

Young people often turn to social media to gather meal inspiration and are influenced by the food trends they see on the various platforms.

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I choose this topic because when we were going over the nutrition piece in lifestyle medicine, I came across a lot of misinformation and I think the topic of nutrition has a lot of stereotypes and wrong or outdated information and you can never really get a clear answer to a lot of questions. I started to notice that my social media was getting catered towards nutrition and each post contradicted the other and then I thought it would be interesting to see the impact social media has on students and there dietary choices.

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One of the main issues with social media is its notorious for having users feel pressured into being apart of a new trend or fad. This also plays a role in dietary choices for a few reasons,

Social media can create a sense of comparison among students such as seeing others post about their health meals and fitness routines.

Weight is often associated with nutrition and people looking to lose weight usually fall down the rabbit hole that is food, and what to eat and what not to eat, if you cut out carbs youll lose weight, if you become a vegan youll lose weight with out explaining the more serious effects of becoming a vegan and what that looks like.

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I my opinion being a student is one of the more stressful times in your life. For my self in particularly i love being a student im a firm believe in learning for the rest of my life but it does bring out the perfectionist, Type A personality in me which is very stressful. Lots of students are under stress from school itself to outside impacts like financial struggle or housing or family. Because of this students tend to have extreme eating habits from not eating an d just surviving on caffeine, snacking all day, only eating once a day, or eating every time there stressed out. This hugely impacts there dietary choices especially when you combine all of the points above.

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Students judge credibility on social media diet trends:

"Results show that students value expertise of authors on social media higher than friendliness, but the importance of motivating and friendly interaction is more indicative of students’ information use behaviour."

Kolarić, A., Juric, M., & Peša Pavlović, N. (2021, September). College students’ credibility judgments on healthy diet information on social media. In European Conference on Information Literacy (pp. 62-74). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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Social media can be used for inspiration and creative ideas; however, it should never take the place of sound medical advice.

Archibald-Durham, Lindsay. "The insta-diet." Current Allergy & Clinical Immunology 34.1 (2021): 30-32.

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I plan to further my education,

I'm thinking about getting a bachelor's degree in nutrition as I think the demand for reputable sources is high and its a topic that is ever growing with information.

This class has taught me so many unique perspectives when it comes to medicine. For me i'm not looking to become a coach and so this class really stood out to me becasue its something that i can apply to my life and people in my life and mainly just use the tools for myself, i do see in the future being able to use these tools with future clients as well.