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A brief review of salient factors influencing adult eating behaviour
According to Emilien & Hollis (2017), we need to fully understand the factors that modulate people’s dietary behaviors not only because food choices are linked with risk of developing certain chronic diseases and some forms of cancer but industrial food production is believed to be unsustainable and greatly contribute to the greenhouse gas emission. There is evidence that a combination of factors such as physiology, environment, psychology, culture, socio-economics and genetics, play a part in influencing eating behavior. These single factors have been identified but the authors believe the interaction between these factors will be helpful in developing new models of eating behavior. This current review portrays how complex eating behavior really is by discussing the impact of several important physiological and environmental factors on meal initiation, meal size (satiation) and inter-meal interval (satiety). A number of limitations that may apply to this area of research is also revealed. [NPID: mood, dietary behavior, chronic diseases, cancer, food production, greenhouse gas emissions, satiety]
Year: 2017
