Description should include
- lifestyle preferences
- geographic location (e.g., food availability, food access)
- religious preferences
- family customs
- food product marketing
- food fads and fad diets.
Process/Skill Questions:
Thinking
- What factors influence a person’s food preferences?
- Why is it important to research an individual’s food preferences?
- Why is it important to research food fads and fad diets?
Communication
- What do we need to know in order to understand the relationship between healthy eating and individual food preferences?
- What communication skills are needed to encourage healthy food preferences?
- What ethnic and cultural values influence individual food preferences?
Leadership
- What strategies would bring about change in an individual’s food preferences?
- What actions promote healthy food preferences?
Management
- What resources are needed to promote healthy food preferences?
- What actions can individuals take to evaluate their food preferences?