Transcript Food choices

Personal Reasons for Eating
(Influences on Food Habits and
Food Preferences)
What Influences Your Food
Choices?
Although we take for granted that there are
reasons why we eat the foods we do, we very
often choose foods to eat based on the following
influences:
1. Nutritional/Physiological Influences
2. Emotional/Psychological Influences
3. Cultural Influences
4. Family/Social Influences
5. Food Availability/Environmental Influences
6. Media Influences
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Nutritional/Physiological Influences
(how your body works)
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Hunger
Appetite
Survival
Senses: smell, taste, touch, and sight
Allergies (they affect what we are not able
to eat)
Emotional/Psychological Influences
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Attitudes
Feelings
Your emotions affect
what you want to eat
or whether or not you eat
Aesthetics (what we find to look nice or appealing to
eat)
Creativity (the more creative or adventurous you are, the
more likely you are to try different foods)
Cultural Influences
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Ethnic background
Holiday customs
Religion
Superstitions and taboos
Celebrations/ traditions
Family/Social Influences
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Parents
Friends
Relatives
Lifestyles
Resources: money, time, knoweldge,
equipment available
Food Availability/ Environmental
Influences
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Climate and terrain
Regional/seasonal foods
Transportation of food (imported foods)
Trends (popular foods are often grown in
larger amounts)
Organic foods
Media Influences
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Television
Magazines
Billboards
movies
Media Influences Cont.
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Read the handout regarding media and
advertising techniques.
Fill the sheet in with examples of advertisements
that you know of that are using some the
techniques described on your handout.
Have these advertising techniques fooled you
into buying their products?