Food Choices Flashcards
What are children’s innate food choices?
Aversion to bitter and sour tastes.
Positive responses to sugar and salt.
Preferences can be overcome through repeated exposure to falvours.
What’s the role of maternal diet on infants?
Maternal diet may influence an infants acceptance of food.
Factors affecting food choices in children are…
Gender, birth weight, temperatment, early feeding style, early flavour experience, complementary feeding, experimental learning, health status and BMI, early self-regulation abilities, predisposed biological tendencies.
Factors affecting food choices in food are…
Energy density, palatability, flavour, colour.
Factors affecting food choices in community, demographic, and socioeconomic status are…
Economic status, parent income, ethnicity, sociocultural education, exposure to media, watching TV while eating, neighbourhood environemtn, accessibility to recreation, facilities, school lunch program.
Factors affects food choices in parents and family are…
Gender, BMI, body satisfaction, education, nutritional knowledge, food preferences and dietary intake, physical activity-life style, modelling, feeding practice, control, parenting lifestyle, positive attitude, portion size, healthy food accessibility, eating location, ambient temperatures and lighting, family structure, frequency of shared family mealtimes, meal structure.
Practical considerations affecting food choice are…
Food cost, convenience, level of hunger, food availablitiy, health status, cooking skills, time schedule, location.
What is Food Security?
Food security exists when all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutrititious food that meets their ietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life.
In terms of Food Security - what is food availability?
The availability of sufficient quantities of appropriate quality, supplied through domestic production or imports.
In terms of Food Security - what is food access?
Access by individuals to adequate sources(entitlements) for acquiring appropriate foods for a nutritious diet. Entitlements are defined as the set of all commodity bundles over which a person can establish command given the legal, political, economic and social arrangements of the community in which they live.
