Food habits and customs nursing nutrition topic.pptx

Food habits and customs are the ways people eat, and the traditional practices and habits related to food consumption within different cultures and societies:
Food habits
How and why people eat, the foods they eat, with whom they eat, and how they obtain, store, use, and discard food.
Food customs
The traditional practices and habits related to food consumption within different cultures and societies

1. F O O D H A B I T S A N D C U S T O M S

2. C U L T U R A L F A C T O R S A v a i l a bility o f f o o d Lifestyle E c o n o m ic f a c t o r F o o d f a d s

3. N u t r i t ional e d u c a tion C o o k i n g p r a c t i ces Religious f a c t o r s T r a d i t ional f a c t o r s Acceptability

4. C u l t u r a l f a c t o r Different culture have different food habits and food patterns Culture is passed from one generation to another. For example, Gujarati use sugar in all vegetables and dals making its taste sweet whereas most of other southern states use plenty of tomatoes, tamarind and pepper in making curries

5. Depending upon the climate, temperature and humidity, all food items are not available in certain regions and states . P eople e a t locally available foo d which b e c o m e t h e i r s taple food e . g , i n w i n t e r w e u s e d r y v e g e t a b les Availability o f f o o d

6. Lifestyle plays an important role in shaping the food habits. A heavy worker, for example, a farmer, gardener or a player, eat heavy meals as their energy requirement demands it. On the sedentary worker and takes light food as their activities are and caloric requirement is less as compared Lifestyle

7. The menu planning of the family depends upon the financial status and capacity to spend on food. T he lower income group purchase cheaper foods for their nutritional requirement. On the other hand, the high income group select variety of foods from all food group Economic factors

8. F o o d f a d s T h e p e r s o nal likes and dislikes play an import a n t i n s e l e c t ion o f f o o d T h e s e l i k e s a n d d i s l i k e s a r e k n o w n a s f o o d f a d s T h i s h a b i t o f l i k i n g a n d d i s l i k i ng m a y r e s ult in nutritional deficiency . For e g S o m e v e g e t a r i a n s l i k e t o e a t v e g e t ables o n l y a n d a v o i d e a t i n g p u l s e s t h a t may result i n protein deficiency diseases .

9. N u t r i t i o n a l E d u c a t ional People h a v i n g knowledge of nutrition select foods according to the requirement of b o d y if they are from low income group. They select cheaper fo o d s but having nutritional importance on the other hand the high income group not having nutritional knowledge may spend lot of money on the food items which carries little nutritional importance

10. C o o k i n g p r a c t i c e influence t h e v a l u e o f t h e f o o d o r n u t r i t ional s t a t u s e . g Peeling the vegetables and washing it after cutting draining away the water from rice after cooking prolonged boiling of food whi l e c o o k i ng Cooking practices

11. Religion plays a great role in food habits of people. Muslims do not eat pork Hindus do not eat beef. Fasting is common in almost all religion due to some or the other festival. Jainies and Braham kumaris do not eat onion and garlic. Religious factors:

12. Traditional beliefs and customs also have a great role in food habits. There is a concept of hot and cold foods. H o t f o o d s are considered to generate heat in the body ike nuts, jaggery, meat, fish and eggs w h i c h p e o ple u s u ally avoid consuming in summer season. a n d c o l d f o o d s a r e v i c e v e r s a Traditional factors:

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