Do Now:

1. Do Now: Think about everything you have eaten since you woke up yesterday morning.. Were there times where you thought to yourself, “ Are there healthier options to eat?” Yes? No? What was one food you ate that you could have switched for a healthier alternative? Answer in a complete sentence.

2. My answer: I often think twice about every food I am about to eat. Yesterday, I took my niece and nephew to Surf Taco, and order the vegan taco which contains mostly beans. Afterwards I took the kids to cupcake magician in Red Bank. I could have taken them to perhaps a Frozen yogurt place and enjoyed our snack just as much.

3. UNDERSTANDING OUR FOOD CHOICES Factors That Influence What We Eat

4. Understanding Our Food Choices • Numerous factors influence choices: • Hunger, appetite, and food habits • Nutrition knowledge, health beliefs/concerns, and practices • Availability, convenience, and economy • Advertising and the media • Early experiences, social interactions, and cultural traditions • Personal preference, taste, and psychological needs • Values, such as political views, environmental concerns, and religious beliefs

5. Influential Factors in Making Food Choices • Availability: Americans enjoy the most abundant food supply in the world • We have the resources to maintain a large agricultural industry and import a wide variety of foods from all over the world • Americans tend to choose high-fat diets rich in meat, eggs, desserts, etc. • As a result, an abundant food supply has been linked to degenerative diseases • Degenerative diseases are sometimes referred to as diseases of affluence

6. Influential Factors in Making Food Choices Income, Food Prices, and Convenience: • Extremely low incomes make it difficult to buy enough food to meet minimum nutritional needs which leads to… Undernutrition: severe under-consumption of calories or nutrients leading to disease or increased susceptibility to disease; a form of malnutrition. • Many people perceive that a healthy diet costs more and is inconvenient. • Which can lead to the purchase of inexpensive, high fat, low nutrient “fast foods” and overnutrition

7. Influential Factors in Making Food Choices Advertising and the Media: • The food industry spends more than $11 billion overall for food, beverage, and fast-food advertising • The media rank among the most influential sources of diet and nutrition information • Television, then magazines and newspapers, radio, family or friends, books, and the Internet: and finally to doctors • Advertising is not always created with the consumer’s best interest in mind. What is the advertisers goal???

8. Perceived Barriers to Healthful Eating • Healthy foods are not always available from fast-food and take-out restaurants • It costs more to eat healthy foods • Too busy to take the time to eat healthfully • Too much conflicting information about which foods are healthy and which foods are not • Healthy foods don’t taste good • The people I usually eat with do not eat healthy foods

12. Ahead of us this week! • Test on Friday (see me if you have lab!) • Review study guide on Thursday • Wednesday go over pre-test.