You are what you eat
Factors that influence food choices of an individual can vary depending on the age, culture, the location where you live and also factors such as your profession. As a person, everyone is unique and so are you. As unique you are, so is your diet and your choices that influence it. The choices that you make should be well suited for who you are and what you do.
Factors affecting food choices
The character of an individual is affected by so many factors around them. Culture, age, gender, profession, the upbringing by your parents, all these factors affect who you are and what you become as a person. When all of these factors are taken into account, you will realize that there is no other person as unique as you in the world. These factors are so important that they have a key impact on your dietary choices. Let’s see how these factors play out and impact on your diet.
- Gender: If women are from Venus, men are definitely from Mars. Men and women are very different physically and psychologically. As unique as they are from each other, so are their dietary preferences. To begin with we start by saying that an average woman is smaller than an average man. This leads to an understanding that woman need fewer calories than men. So that means, the food intake of women has to be lesser than that of men. Because if women were to consume calories as much as men, they would gain weight more easily. Thing that women need to focus on here is that, the right kind of food will not just contain calories. It will also contain a whole lot of nutrients and minerals. Women should focus on eating such foods to get a well-balanced diet containing food and minerals in order to stay healthy even though they eat less than men.
- Culture: Take India for example, you have religion that practice vegan diet throughout their lives and look down upon eating meat as a sin. Some cultures are so strict to the practice of vegan diet that they even forbid eating products that come from animals such as milk and eggs. Such personal choices of diet are ok as long as you make up for what nutrients and minerals you are losing by not consuming non vegetarian food. For example, vegans should look for alternate sources of protein and calcium if they completely avoid meat, eggs and milk.
- Age: Just think about yourself. The joy that you used to get when you hear the sound of the ice cream truck when you were a 10-year-old is not the same anymore at this point of time in your life. People change with age and time. And it’s a good thing too. People need to change and carefully watch their diet as they age. Since your movements become less as you age, you need to make sure that you are not consuming calories that you cannot burn.
Learn to regulate your diet
A lot more factors influence your diet. The kind of atmosphere you live in for example. What we need to be careful about is that we do not consume calories which we will regret to burn or are unable to burn later. Learn the ropes of how various factors around you influence your diet and how to keep it all under control so you are not eating too much, or too less of healthy food.