Ellyn satter biography of abraham
According to Abraham Maslow, growth occurs on its own, in its own time, in sequence.
The food hierarchy demonstrates that when you feed yourself faithfully and reassure yourself that you will be fed, you will learn and grow with eating..
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“How would it look to apply the principles of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs to food management?”
That's the opening sentence by Ellyn Satter in a 2007 article in the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior. She writes:
“Abraham Maslow arranged basic needs in order of sequential importance to the individual and taught that needs at each level must be satisfied before the individual can become aware of and address the next level of need.
From the foundation through the apex on Maslow’s pyramid-shaped Hierarchy of Needs, they are: (1) physiological needs: air, water, food, shelter, sleep, sex; (2) safety, security and order; (3) social affection: love and belongingness; (4) esteem, status: self-esteem and esteem by others; and (5) self-actualization: being all the individual can be.”
She then proposes (without any data or evidence I might add), the following hierarchy of food needs.
Satter argues this hierarchy is important to understand for