3.  Identify internal and external influences that affect food choices

4.  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?

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

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

7. 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

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

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

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

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