Socio-cultural factors influencing attitudes and perceptions on food and nutrition in Morogoro municipality
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2010
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Sokoine University of Agriculture
Abstract
All humans eat to survive. They also eat to express appreciation, for a sense of belonging,
as part of family customs, and for self-realization. For example, some one who is not
hungry may eat a piece of cake that has been baked in his or her honour. The term eating
habits refers to why and how people eat, which food they eat as well as the way people
obtain, store, use, and discard food. Individual, social, cultural, religious, economic,
environmental, and political factor all influence people’s eating habits. Social factors and
cultural practices in most countries have a great influence on what people eat, how they
prepare their food, their feeding practices and the food they prefer (Baranowski et al.,
2003). All people have their likes and dislikes and their beliefs about food and many
people are conservative to their food habit. People eat according to learned behaviours
regarding etiquette, meal, snack pattern, acceptable foods, food combinations, and portion
sizes. A common eating pattern is three meals (breakfast, lunch, and dinner) per day with
snacks between meals. The components of a meal vary across cultures, but generally
include grains, such as rice or noodle, meat or meat substitute, such as fish, beans, and
accompaniments, such as vegetable. (Klimas-Zacas et al., 2001).
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Socio-cultural factors, Attitudes and perceptions, Food and nutrition