 Identify internal and external influences that affect food choices

 What are your favorite foods?  Why do you like them?  Which foods do most of the members of your family enjoy together?  Are there any foods that your family does not eat?  Does what you eat say something about who you are?

 A variety of factors affect eating habits such as...

TASTE is a physiological response to specific chemicals in foods. Yummy!!!!! More brains…….

ECONOMICS is when food is selected in response to what a person can afford. Individual hypothesis Class hypothesis Individual hypothesis Class hypothesis Individual hypothesis Class hypothesis

EARLY EXPERIENCES are the influences that we have been exposed to as a child and how they relate to our food choices.

HABIT is when food is selected in response to what a person does over and over again without actually deciding.

CULTURE is the influence that a person’s ethnic and / or religious background has on food choices.

SOCIAL FACTORS are the influences that our society has on our food choices.