1. Exploring Food Choices

2. Why do we eat Food??? To meet our: Physical Needs Psychological Needs
Social Needs

3. Physical Needs What are some physical needs of food?
Food supplies you with the nutrients you need to survive.

4. Nutrients: Chemical components of food necessary for the body:
Provides energy
Materials for growth
Regulates chemical processes

5. Nutrition: The study of nutrients and how they are used in the body.

6. Wellness
What do you think of when you hear the word wellness?

8. Wellness- a philosophy that encourages people to take responsibility for their own health.
Wellness is reflected in both your attitudes and your behaviors.

9. Wellness decisions that influence your health include the following:
The food choices you make
The amount of physical activity you get
How you manage your feelings and emotions
How you handle certain social situations

10. Psychological Needs
Security
Belonging
Emotions

11. Security
Infants first learn to feel secure when they are fed, cared for and loved.
Continuing to have an adequate amount of food to eat helps people build a lasting sense of security.

12. Belonging
Food is a part of many social events, including weddings and parties.
Certain foods are linked to sporting events
Food makes people feel welcome and at ease. By appeasing hunger, it brings comfort.

13. Emotions Food meets your Emotional needs
Comfort- makes you feel better
Happy- deserve it, reward
Sad-helps calm us down
Bored-nothing else to do
Security- feel more confident

14. Social Influences
Family
Friends
Traditions

15. Why do you like or dislike certain foods?

16. What influences the types of food YOU choose???

17. Family- Greatest Influences
Family traditions
Certain meals on certain days
Habits- Where u eat, How its prepared
Resources-They buy the groceries
Time
Money

18. Culture/Region Region- What part of the world to you live?
Eat what is most available to you naturally
New England- lobster, Clam Chowder
Texas- BBQ
Louisiana- Gumbo
Inuit Indians (Artic people)- primarily meat eaters

19. Food Customs- Unique Foods
Wonton Soup is from China
Shish Kebab is from Middle East
Pita Bread- Middle East
Hindus do not eat beef because they consider cattle sacred animals.
Muslims do not eat pork.

20. Personal Influences
Your Lifestyle- How you spend your life… what is important to you?
Values and Priorities- Time/Money

21. Social Influences Friends Media Introduce you to new foods
Social time spent with them
Media
Advertising
What is popular among media role models

22. Technology and the Food Supply
Suppose you could step into a time machine that would whisk you 300 years into the past. What would your food choices be like?

23. Technology...
Today modern technology has greatly increased the options available to you. Planes and trucks bring food from around the world to Wal-Mart/Kroger, etc..
-Frozen Foods
Think about the food advances 300 years from now!

24. A World of Food Choices It’s a Small World After All…
Food is grown all over the world and flown all over the world.
Most developed nations have many different cultures of food at their fingertips.

25. Food, Science and Technology
Food Science- The scientific study of food and its preparation.
Ergonomics- The study of ways to make tools and equipment easier and more comfortable to use.

26. MAGAZINE ACTIVITY Influences on Food Choices
Find 2 picture examples of each of the following influences on food choices
Physical Emotional Social
Friends Family Cultural
Advertising Technology Dietary Concerns