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UNDERSTANDING OUR FOOD CHOICES

Factors That Influence What We Eat . UNDERSTANDING OUR FOOD CHOICES. Understanding Our Food Choices. Numerous factors influence choices : Hunger, appetite, and food habits Nutrition knowledge, health beliefs/concerns, and practices Availability, convenience, and economy

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UNDERSTANDING OUR FOOD CHOICES

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  1. Factors That Influence What We Eat UNDERSTANDING OUR FOOD CHOICES

  2. Understanding Our Food Choices • Numerous factors influence choices: • Hunger, appetite, and food habits • Nutrition knowledge, health beliefs/concerns, and practices • Availability, convenience, and economy • Advertising and the media • Early experiences, social interactions, and cultural traditions • Personal preference, taste, and psychological needs • Values, such as political views, environmental concerns, and religious beliefs

  3. Influential Factors in Making Food Choices • Availability: Americans enjoy the most abundant food supply in the world • We have the resources to maintain a large agricultural industry and import a wide variety of foods from all over the world • Americans tend to choose high-fat diets rich in meat, eggs, desserts, etc. • As a result, an abundant food supply has been linked to degenerative diseases • Degenerative diseases are sometimes referred to as diseases of affluence

  4. Influential Factors in Making Food Choices Income, Food Prices, and Convenience: • Extremely low incomes make it difficult to buy enough food to meet minimum nutritional needs which leads to… Undernutrition: severe under-consumption of calories or nutrients leading to disease or increased susceptibility to disease; a form of malnutrition. • Many people perceive that a healthy diet costs more and is inconvenient. • Which can lead to the purchase of inexpensive, high fat, low nutrient “fast foods” and overnutrition

  5. Influential Factors in Making Food Choices Advertising and the Media: • The food industry spends more than $11 billion overall for food, beverage, and fast-food advertising • The media rank among the most influential sources of diet and nutrition information • Television, then magazines and newspapers, radio, family or friends, books, and the Internet: and finally to doctors • Advertising is not always created with the consumer’s best interest in mind. What is the advertisers goal???

  6. Perceived Barriers to Healthful Eating • Healthy foods are not always available from fast-food and take-out restaurants • It costs more to eat healthy foods • Too busy to take the time to eat healthfully • Too much conflicting information about which foods are healthy and which foods are not • Healthy foods don’t taste good • The people I usually eat with do not eat healthy foods

  7. Healthy Food Choices EATING TO BEAT THE ODDS

  8. Eat to Beat the Odds • Fat • Saturated Fat • Sodium/Salt • Limit Alcohol • Added Sugars • Whole grains • Fiber • Fruits/Veggies • Low Fat Dairy • Maintain a HEALTHY Weight

  9. Eating to Beat the Odds • Helps to REDUCE the risk of: • Certain types of cancers • Diabetes • Heart Disease • Obesity • Stroke • High Blood Pressure

  10. Eating to Beat the Odds at School Good and Fast: A Guide to Eating on the Run NUTRITION ACTION

  11. Guide to eating on the run at school Without “Supersizing” your waist Strategy 1: Don’t supersize. Strategy 2: Think grilled, not fried. Fried food adds 50% more fat and calories. Strategy 3: Hold the mayo. Strategy 4: Avoid all-you-can-eat restaurants. Strategy 5: Avoid the soda. Have water or seltzer.

  12. Guide to eating on the run at school Without “Supersizing” your waist Strategy 6: Balance fast-food meals with other food choices during the day. Strategy 7: Split your order—share with a friend. Strategy 8: Bring your lunch. Strategy 9: Choose grab-and-go foods – pretzels, fresh fruit, string cheese, bars (think portable)

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