Sneak Peak into Research

by dorisfeurstein

During some initial research and reading I realized how uncertain we are about defining what healthy living is. Although there is a lot in the media, it appears to be an art in itself to navigate through the offers today and make healthy choices.

Thats the space where I feel like I can use the techniques of Design to create a critical view on how society has created the ecosystem around our food habits.

Choosing of my interviewees

For my primary research I chose to work with a specific group of people and their knowledge as well as relationship with Nutrients and food.

Nutrition Science

These people helped me to understand the possibilities of how far we are with the science in understanding food and Nutrition. What technologies we are having today and how young the science of understanding what food does to us still is.

some insights from the Interviews with Dietician, Physician, Chemist and Nutritionist:

Athletes

To talk to Athletes the motivation was really to see how people with enormous discipline work with food. Athletes do a lot of testing on their own and often deal with weight gain and weight loss more than 3 times a year.

All my Athletes were in a very different field and had a very different attitude to their food habits. All of them keep mostly a diet without extra sugar and know exactly what makes their body work. What gives them energy and what makes them physically do what they want to do.

some insights from the interviews with divers Athletes:

Why I chose not to work with Weight watchers or any other Weight losing community?

“it’s a learning experience in the limits of science!” – Gary Taubes

Since science doesn’t 100% know, it would be difficult for me to say I know it better than somebody else, since that is not at all possible and true. We are extreme individuals and have very individual needs, but our culture in food habits and rituals and the offer of so much chunk, makes it a matter of willpower and food habits.