Sentences with phrase «perceive as habit»

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Thus, Smith argues, «no habit or practice is neutral,» for such actions cultivate our desires even as they serve as perceived means of fulfilling our desires for the good.

Cooking is now perceived as a desirable lifestyle habit, if you cook healthy.

I asked about my son's sleep habits, hoping for some words of wisdom that would fix what I perceived as our problem.

And perhaps most importantly, most people simply lack the patience to stick through all the perceived unpleasantness of sustainable weight loss, such as giving up on your most unhealthy habits, fighting off food cravings and making regular exercise an integral part of your lifestyle.

We are creatures of habit — but only if we're rewarded with something we perceive as positive.

Thus, as Price perceived so clearly, the only way for humans, with their limited ability to take in food, to properly nourish themselves is to eat mostly nutrient - dense foods; and the emerging science of biochemistry confirmed the dietary habits of primitive peoples by revealing just which foods best meet these requirements — all of them animal foods, and not necessarily steak or chicken but seafood, and milk products and organ meats from animals raised on mineral - rich soil.

1 - lack of relaxation 2 - devitalized food 3 - unfulfilling employment (dead - end jobs) 4 - dead - end relationships (romantic or not) 5 - surgery 6 - junk food 7 - trans fats and rancid fats 8 - financial stress 9 - sedentary lifestyle 10 - excessive exercise 11 - death of a loved one 12 - alcoholism 13 - smoking 14 - illicit drug use 15 - prescription drug use 16 - toxins 17 - poor eating habits 18 - marital stress 19 - repeated traumas 20 - workaholism 21 - nutritional deficiencies 22 - hormonal imbalances 23 - oral contraceptives 24 - stimulants 25 - counterproductive attitudes and beliefs 26 - conventional hormone replacement therapy 27 - non-prescription drugs 28 - psychological stress 29 - persistent fears 30 - emotional stress 31 - lack of sleep 32 - being in denial about feelings 33 - acute or chronic infection 34 - repeated stresses 35 - persistent negative stressors 36 - fun or enjoyment deprivation 37 - allergies 38 - caffeine 39 - white sugar and white flour products 40 - antacids 41 - artificial sweeteners and colors 42 - major life events — even if perceived consciously as «good» (e.g.: graduating high school, moving, etc..)

If you have children living in the household, and you are a victim of verbal abuse, they will consciously, or subconsciously, pick up on those habits, and perceive them as normal.

Many students who enrolled simply were not in the habit of coming to school because they didn't perceive it «as a safe or welcoming place,» she says.

Frequently, parents and students perceive tutors as quick fixes to academic challenges rather than focusing on the improving learning habits and kindling an academic curiosity for lasting academic gains.

Credit card manufactured spending is considered normal in terms of spending habits, so it can be perceived as suspicious, despite the fact that it's legal.

-LSB-...] owners also have a bad habit of calling their dogs before doing something the dogs perceive as negative, DeDivitis -LSB-...]

Dog owners also have a bad habit of calling their dogs before doing something the dogs perceive as negative, DeDivitis said.

This has consequences that range from redlining customers based on their perceived value to being able to act as a digital voyeur on people's intimate lives and habits.

The seven habits of reclaiming relationships This exploratory study identified seven elements of caring relationships as perceived by youth in residential treatment settings.

The analyses also included age, race / ethnicity (three binary variables for Black, Hispanic and other ethnicity, coded with Whites as the reference group), gender, household income and parental education, media - viewing habits — hours watching television on a school day and how often the participant viewed movies together with his / her parents — and receptivity to alcohol marketing (based on whether or not the adolescent owned alcohol - branded merchandise at waves 2 — 4).31 Family predictors included perceived inhome availability of alcohol, subject - reported parental alcohol use (assessed at the 16 M survey and assumed to be invariant) and perceptions of authoritative parenting (α = 0.80).32 Other covariates included school performance, extracurricular participation, number of friends who used alcohol, weekly spending money, sensation seeking (4 - wave Cronbach's α range = 0.57 — 0.62) 33 and rebelliousness (0.71 — 0.76).34 All survey items are listed in table S1.

In other words, as stated in the final report about positive family functioning edited by the Australian Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs (2010), family functions refers to a variety of characteristics encompassing several domains such as emotional attributes (e.g., closeness of parent — child relationships, warmth, sensitivity, perceived support, and safety), family governance issues (e.g., members» role, age appropriate rules), engagement and cognitive development, physical health habits, quality of intra-familial relationships (e.g., parent — child interactions, parent - parent relationships, spouse — spouse relationships), and social connectedness (e.g., relationships with the extended family, activities outside the family unit, members» role balance).

Sometimes, the seller perceives the inspection as a reflection of their maintenance habits or «they are there to defend each point raised during the inspection with the goal of saying their home has no defects and the issues raised are without basis,» Gross said.