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Health and Human Development - Factors that affect food selection:
subcultures

Subcultures

* Similarly, children who grow up learning to adhere to specially chosen
or prepared foods for religious reasons will continue to be influenced by
these experiences. For some young people, adherence to these religious
practices is breaking down, so these young people are more likely to eat a
greater variety of foods and not be as restricted as their parents and
grandparents. Other religious groups adhere strictly to their food
restrictions with all members of the family observing the religious
customs.

* Every age group experiences foods that are peculiar to their group.
Fashions come and go in the food industry especially in those foods that
market to a narrow age group, e.g. breakfast cereals and ice cream
confections. Children starting school like to eat foods that are similar to
what others in the group are eating. Peer influence is probably greatest in
adolescence. The type of foods, place of eating, time of eating, style of
eating and what you wear to eat are all part of the pattern created. This
has never been as strong as in the past decade partly because powerful
advertising from the food companies stimulates it.

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