Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Eating Behaviour
- Culture
- There are SIGNIFICANT differences in diets
across cultures. This can be due to
AVALIABILITY, RELIGION or TRADITION.
- Avaliability - for
example eskimos eat
seal as that is the
primary meat avaliable
to them.
- Religion - for example
Muslims will only eat Halal
meat and teh majority won't
eat pig products.
- Tradition - for example the French
will eat frogs legs and snails,
while the Japanese will eat insects
and snakes, all of these are not
considered "food" in England.
- WARDLE ET AL - surveryed 16,000 young
adults in 21 countries across Europe. Those in
meditarranean countries ate more fruit and
vegetables, while those in Scandinavian
countries ate more fibre. This shows a
difference in preferences.
- Parental Attitudes
- Children aquire eating behaviours
by observing the behaviour of their
parents.
- OLIVERA ET AL - found a
relationship between
mother's intake in food and
thei pre-school child's intake.
- BROWN and OGDEN - found a
correlation between parents and their
children's snack intake, eating
motivations and body satisfaction.
- Media
- The media can promote a
particular food and exert a huge
influence over people in
modernised societies. Children
often show a preference for highly
advertised foods e.g. McDonalds.
- MACINTYRE - found
that the media has a
MAJOR influence on
what people eat and
their attitudes
towards certain foods.
- Social Learning Theory
- By observing others
and how/what they eat,
we are IMPACTED and
change our own eating
behaviour and
preferences to those
around us.
- LOWE ET AL - younger
children were shown
videos of 'food-dudes'
eating healthy foods
the younger chidlren
had previously refused.
this EXPOSURE lead to
the chidlren
SIGNIFICANTLY chnaging
tehir own attitudes to
seem cool and be liked
(normative).
- Another factor is EXPOSURE and
FAMILIARITY, we prefer foods we have had
greater exposure to and that are not 'novel'.
- NEOPHOBIA - fear of new foods.
- Mood
- Serotonin Hypothesis
- Opiate Hypothesis
- Explanations for the Success and Failure of Dieting
- Health