What influences my food choices?
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What influences my food choices?
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Most people want to eat healthier. However, many people still make unhealthy food choices.
There are many things that influence food choices.
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What are some of those influences?
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The influences can be:
• Family• Friends• TV and other media• Mood or our feelings• Where you eat• How much money you have
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Turn to your completed Food Diary activity sheet.
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• How many meals/snacks were eaten “on the go”?
• How many meals/snacks were eaten while watching TV?
• How many meals/snacks were eaten with your family?
• How many meals/snacks were eaten alone? With someone?
• How many meals/snacks were eaten because of a specific mood?
• How many meals/snacks were eaten when you weren’t hungry? Why did you eat a meal or snack when you weren’t hungry?
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• What were your biggest influences on eating your meals/snacks?
• When did you eat the healthiest? When did you eat the least healthiest?
• What did you learn from this activity?• Based on what you learned from this activity,
what do you intend to do to eat healthier in the future?
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Another influence on our eating habits in the effect advertising has on our food choices.
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What types of food have you seen advertised on TV and in magazines?
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What do these foods have in common?
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Many of the foods you’ve seen advertised on TV and in magazines are not very healthy for you.
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What is the problem with advertisements for unhealthy foods?
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Studies show that people who read or see those advertisements tend to eat more of those kinds
of foods.
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Do you think you are influenced to eat certain foods through advertising? Why or why not?
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Most people are influenced in their food choices through advertising. If this weren’t the case. Companies would not
spend billions of dollars a year on advertising their food products.
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Experts know that there is a relationship between the number of hours a child watches TV and the
amount of advertised foods eaten.
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The food that is advertised during the time most children and adolescents watch TV is mostly unhealthy food such
as chips, cookies, high-sugar cereal and candy.
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Food advertisers use many different techniques to try to get you to buy their food items.
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What are some of these techniques?
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Turn to Food Advertising Techniques.
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What are some ways the you can counteract these advertising techniques?
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Food Choices
• It’s important to understand the many influences on your food choices. The more you understand these influences, including advertising, the smarter you will be when choosing what foods to eat.