Ch.3 Flashcards

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Reasons to make food selection beside health concern

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  1. Personal preference
  2. Habit and tradition
  3. Social interactions
  4. Convenience and economy
  5. Positive and negative experience
  6. Emotional comfort
  7. Image and experience
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Personal preference

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1.Tastiness
Sugar and always popular

  1. High fat foodstuffs
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Habit and tradition

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  1. People eating the foods they grew up eating
  2. Every country has its own typical foods or ways of food combination
  3. Eating the same kind of food time to time without thinking can be comforting
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Social interaction

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Food serves in good time for people to enjoy gathering or any social events

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Convenience and economy

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  1. High popularity of ready to serve food
    - > easy to prepare
    - > reasonable price

E.g. Microwave oven food, fast food, delivery food, canned food

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Positive and negative association

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  1. Food could relate to happy experience

2. Food could be a tool for rewards or punishment when teaching child

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Emotional comfort

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  1. To relieve boredom, depression or to calm anxiety
    E.g. Chocolate may make you feel better
  2. To speed up a person’s brain activity to make one feels more alert
    E.g. Drivers drinking red bull for long distance travelling
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Image and experience

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  1. People on diet for better weight control or physical appearance
  2. People choosing food as a sense of privilege or to feel good
    E.g. Starbucks coffee
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Relationship between diet and socioeconomic status

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  1. Diet quality is affected not only by age and sex, but also by occupation, education and income levels
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The economic of food choice

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  1. Lack of money
    - ability to buy better food
    - lack of proper cooking facilities
    - increase the need to eat convenient food ( higher energy density)
  2. Logistical obstacles
    - lack of transportation for better food
  3. Education level
    - lack of knowledge on a wise food choice
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How social inequities might affect access to healthy foods

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  1. Food price and diet costs
    - > Food costs are a barrier to the adoption. Of nutrient-dense diets, especially by the lower income group

-> lean meats, fish or fresh fruit and vegetables are far more costly per calories than are added sugars and added fat

  1. Food access and the food environment
    - > ease of access to a supermarket
  2. Education and culture
    - > children influenced by parent’s nutrition knowledge, attitude and practices
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Socioeconomic status and selections in different food group (Grain group)

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  1. The consumption of whole grains was associated with higher SES
  2. The consumption of refined cereals ( white bread), pasta, and rice was associated with lower SES
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Socioeconomic status and selections in different food groups ( fruits and vegetable group)

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  1. Higher SES group more likely to consume vegetables and fruit in higher quantities and in greater variety
  2. Fiber intake decreased and decreasing level of occupation in men and women
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Socioeconomic status and selections in different food groups (meat group)

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  1. Higher SES groups : more consumption of lean meats , fish and other seafood
  2. Lower SES groups: larger quantities of fatty meats instead of the recommended lean meat items
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Socioeconomic status and selections in different food groups ( some other types of important nutrients)

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  1. Calcium decreased within decreasing occupational level in men and with decreasing education in women
  2. Vitamin D intake decreased decreasing educational and occupational level, in men and women, was strongly associated with decreasing vitamin D intake
  3. Vitamin A intake decreased with decreasing education only among men
  4. More n high levels of occupation there was a decrease in iron intake with decreasing educational levels in men.
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