Influences on Food Choices

the customs and beliefs of a racial, religious, or social group.

• physiological

• Cultural

• social

• psychological

The development of new ideas that will help to improve other methods for doing tasks.

• technological

• wellness

• media

• time

What is an example of an internal influence.

• cultural

• Economic

• media

• technological

Influences such as states of life, family schedules, financial resources, knowledge, skills and peer group.

• Situational factors (social factors)

• physiological

• individual

• media

Media

• Losing a job and attending cooking classes are examples of which type of individual influences on food choices?

• Juan chose to meet his friends for pizza instead of eating lunch at home. This most likely demonstrates which type of need?

• Influences such as gender, age, wellness and activity levels.

• Picking a certain brand of bottled water because a celebrity is drinking it in an advertisement is most likely an illustration of what type of external food influence?

Environmental influences

• Food choices based on supply and demand, price and availability.

• factors such as air, water, soil, mineral, plant and animal resources.

• Eating convenience foods because a person does not know how to cook.

• Preparing dinner at home, rather than eating out due to unemployment.

Wellness

• Meeting friends for pizza instead of eating lunch at home.

• Food choices based on supply and demand, price and availability.

• influences that are made by the individual such as physiological, psychological and situational or social.

• the state of being in overall good health.

Maria chooses low-sodium foods for her diet because she has hypertension. This is most likely an example of which food choice factor

• psychological

• Social

• Nutrition

• media

Psychological influences

• influences such as states of life, family schedules, financial resources, knowledge, skills and peer group.

• influences such as appetite, emotions, thoughts, stress, and personal likes and dislikes.

• influences that come from outside of the individual or family.

• food choices based on supply and demand, price and availability.

physiological

• influences such as gender, age, wellness and activity levels.

• influences such as television, print and the Internet.

• influences such as appetite, emotions, thoughts, stress, and personal likes and dislikes.

• influences such as states of life, family schedules, financial resources, knowledge, skills and peer group.