Influences on Food choices

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Influences on Food choices

Cultural Factors

Many peoples food choices change based on their cultural backgrounds or their religions

Culture: People from different cultural backgrounds eat different foods, based on what their ancestors liked and disliked, their food preferences result in patterns of food choices within a cultural or regional group. Many food items and meals have a meaning attached to them.

Baklava

kebbeh

Religion: Many religions encourage eating certain foods or choose not to eat other foods. For example, some religions discourage the consumption of meat or alcohol.

Media

Media can have a huge impact on the foods that we decide to eat, based on the food that we view and are most exposed to on the media, would determine the foods and diets we decide to eat. Because of social media, most people are exposed to the different advertising techniques that encourage them to buy certain foods.

billboards

food comercials

Trends on the media

feta pasta

pancake cereal

celebrity endorsment

Physical

Different people require different amounts and types of foods depending on their physical needs. And based on the different physical factors, a person might need to eat less or more than others, or eat certain types of nutrients.

The senses

touching foods and they feel right or familiar by the texture

hearing foods that have familiar sounds

tasting a food and deciding whether or not you like the flavor

smelling food and being drawn to its aroma and seeing if it smells familiar

seeing food and deciding whether its appetizing or not

Hunger

Hunger is the physical sensation to tell your brain its time to eat

Gender: women often need higher intake of fruits and vegetables and dietary fibre and low intakes of fat. Therefore due to my gender there is a huge importance to consuming highly nutritious foods that contain

BMI

age: the amount of food that we need to consume decreases as we get older. This is because of the many changes that happen in the body with age such as slower gastric emptying, altered hormonal responses, decreased basal metabolic rate which can also contribute to lower energy intake

Psychological Needs

Food can have a psychological meaning behind them based on the way that a person was raised and the food habits they develop as they grow up.

Some people grow up eating a certain meal with their loved ones that they later develop that meal into their comfort food.

My family's comfort food

Other children grow up with food being a punishment for bad behavior or they are denied certain foods. These children can develop a bad relationship with food later on in life

Food is a reward: many children were rewarded with foods as a form of discipline. Those children develop the habit of seeing food as a reward and as a form of comfort and security.

Emotional: emotions can have a huge effect on your food choices, some people use food as a way of coping or comfort and tend to respond to their emotions with food.

Boredom leads some people to unconsciously overeating any foods that are readily available to them which is considered a type of emotional eating. This can be a huge contributor to weight gain and obesity.

when you're eating while on your phone

when youre watching a movie

Others respond to feelings of happiness to eating healthier and following a healthier and more nutritious diet. They will also become more likely to follow healthy habits like working out or following a strict healthy diet.

when I am in a good mood, I would have more energy to prepare healthy meals and put effort into ensuring that they contain enough of all the right nutrients.

Some people respond to feelings of anxiousness, stress, or sadness with overeating or eating unhealthy foods as a way of coping and comfort. It helps provide them with a short-term feeling of comfort but can develop into a serious issue with negative healthy consequences.

my comfort food

social reasons

some social interactions that contain unhealthy foods are

going to the movies

going to the mall

weddings

birthday parties

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Interaction with others shapes one's attitudes and behaviors towards food choices. In addition, our cravings for certain foods can change depending on who we're with and what they're eating.

it is proven that when we are around our friends we tend to eat more, and our food choices might change as well based on the people we surround ourselves with. We tend to pick on our friends' eating habits and develop them into our own

But on the other hand, if you're surrounded by friends with unhealthy eating habits that always want to eat out, or don't eat healthy meals then that will also have an effect on you.

if you're surrounded by friends that have healthy eating habits and eat healthy meals, then you'd do the same and also eat healthy and nutritious meals