Introduction

We are questioning whether your food lifestyle directly impacts how comfortable you feel in your own skin. It may be that vegetarians have a difference in their affective processing than meat eaters that could lead to a difference in how comfortable you are with your body (Anderson et al. 2019). What you eat is a part of your social identity, which is inherently a big part of who you are (Nezlek and Forestell 2020). Therefore, let us begin to figure out how you feel in your own skin.

Methods

We have asked multiple individuals about their eating habits along with a few varying factors that could impact their confidence and comfortability with their bodies. We then analyzed the data and interpreted it to get our results.

Results

This is the sample of individuals that were surveyed and some characteristics about them along with more specified data.

Conclusion

From the data you can see that people who eat everything seem to be more comfortable with their bodies than people who identify as vegetarians. It was thought that sex and place of birth may have an impact on people’s comfortability with their bodies, which is why data on place of birth and sex were recorded. Place of birth proves to have no correlation, however sex may be a direct indicator of comfort level. More females are vegetarians than males, but more research is needed to confirm whether sex or diet is correlated to comfort level in one’s own skin.

Bibliography

Anderson, Eric C., Jolie Wormwood, Lisa Feldman Barrett, and Karen S. Quigley. 2019. “Vegetarians’ and Omnivores’ Affective and Physiological Responses to Images of Food.” Food Quality and Preference 71 (January): 96–105. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodqual.2018.06.008.
Nezlek, John B, and Catherine A Forestell. 2020. “Vegetarianism as a Social Identity.” Current Opinion in Food Science 33 (June): 45–51. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cofs.2019.12.005.