More Than Just Going the Distance: Body Image and Perceived Access to Food

This study seeks to answer the question: how can a person's access to food impact their relationship with food and their bodies. In the course of this study, ideas of access, health, and attractiveness are examined to ultimately conclude that people have two different definitions of health one that is based on societal conceptions of healthy food such as eating a certain amount of calories or limiting your diet to superfoods and exercising to lose weight and another that is more survival based and focused on a need to eat until one is full and exercise for the sake of moving one's body. These definitions are influenced by a shift in access to who is making a person's food as the participants transition from their parents providing their food to them providing their own food.