Food Preference and nutrition
What drives our food preferences and our food choices? The answer involves both biological, psychological and social factors
NutritionSteps have a 7 minute video explaining why we like what we like.
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We are what we eat as the saying goes but how true is this? How is it that also some people hate certain foods when they are younger and love them when they are older. Is it social, DNA or just the taste or texture. Is there a link with colour?
In some societies and cultures children are fed hot spicy foods from birth and accept it as a way of life whilst other communities children take years to get accustomed to hot spicy food – if ever.
Well the answer is – who knows? There is much written about food preferences one thing is for sure it’s very individual. Therefore doing your homework,educating yourself about you and your preferences are good ways to start to understand more.
Start here by taking the test and see how you go. If you find any actions that you wish introduce then detail them your action plan and if you need more help with getting started or keeping going then consult with one of our experts.
There is information available which will help you formulate your action plan – both on our site and on external sites.
FuelDrive gives you a massive understanding about your food preferences and some really interesting statistics about food habits.
WeightDrive is also linked with food preference because you may consider changing your food habits and its important to know how this might affect your weight.
When you change your food preferences your body can go into imbalance and make you feel uncomfortable – in fact it could be said your body will work against you because humans are creatures of habit and we love to have stability. Regular same food creates a chemical balance in our system. Once we start to change that balance it makes us feel different. That may force many people to slip back into old habits as we feel it is nice there.
This Shape site discusses what happens to your body when you change your food habits and start to eat healthily.
Food preferences from the 
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What drives our food preferences and our food choices? The answer involves both biological, psychological and social factors
NutritionSteps have a 7 minute video explaining why we like what we like.
In order for you to assess what you know about this health area, we suggest using a questionnaire. This might help you understand your situation in this area, or taking it might improve your understanding of the area.
You may be able to take this questionnaire online – either here on our site or on an external site – or download it and complete it on paper – it depends on copyright (and whether we’ve managed to build it on our site!).
The ways you can take a questionnaire:
You can take a questionnaire on our site. This will score the questions automatically and give you a summary showing what your score means.
You will see our questionnaire first, possibly followed by a tab which may contain a second questionnaire (see above). If you scroll down you will see links to external questionnaire(s) or downloads if there are any. Scroll down until you get to the right place for you!
Eating self-regulatory capacity can help individuals to cope with the obesogenic environment and achieve, as well as maintain, a healthy weight and diet. At present, there is no comprehensive, reliable and valid questionnaire for assessing this capacity and measuring change in response to self-regulation interventions in adults. This paper reports the development of the Self-regulation of Eating Behaviour Questionnaire (SREBQ) for use in UK adults, and presents evidence for its reliability and construct validity.
This quiz is no longer available.The Eating Disorder Examination (EDE) is widely viewed as the “gold standard” measure of eating disorder psychopathology. It provides a measure of the range and severity of eating disorder features. It can also generate operational eating disorder diagnoses. It is used in most treatment studies and in many other investigations of eating disorder psychopathology. Normative values are available.
The EDE-Q is a self-report questionnaire based upon the EDE interview. It is used when it is impracticable or undesirable to employ the interview. The EDE-Q is very widely used and is also available in many languages. The current version is EDE-Q 6.0.
Eating self-regulatory capacity can help individuals to cope with the obesogenic environment and achieve, as well as maintain, a healthy weight and diet. At present, there is no comprehensive, reliable and valid questionnaire for assessing this capacity and measuring change in response to self-regulation interventions in adults. This paper reports the development of the Self-regulation of Eating Behaviour Questionnaire (SREBQ) for use in UK adults, and presents evidence for its reliability and construct validity.
This quiz is no longer available.The Eating Disorder Examination (EDE) is widely viewed as the “gold standard” measure of eating disorder psychopathology. It provides a measure of the range and severity of eating disorder features. It can also generate operational eating disorder diagnoses. It is used in most treatment studies and in many other investigations of eating disorder psychopathology. Normative values are available.
The EDE-Q is a self-report questionnaire based upon the EDE interview. It is used when it is impracticable or undesirable to employ the interview. The EDE-Q is very widely used and is also available in many languages. The current version is EDE-Q 6.0.
You can download at least one questionnaire from our site. You will have to score the questionnaire yourself.
This is the PDF version of our second questionnaire – the one regarding Eating Disorders.
The Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire (EDE-Q) is a 28-item self-reported questionnaire adapted from the semi-structured interview Eating Disorder Examination (EDE) and designed to assess the range and severity of features associated with a diagnosis of eating disorder using 4 subscales (Restraint, Eating Concern, Shape Concern and Weight Concern) and a global score.
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The EDE-Q (and its items) is under copyright. It is freely available for non-commercial research use only and no permission need to be sought.
Times of change can be a challenge, no doubt! Whether it’s a relationship breakup, job loss, or being diagnosed with a serious health issue. Or you may WANT things to be different, but it feels a little scary or overwhelming. The butterfly reminds us change can be beautiful, even necessary, in order to realize our full potential and live our best life.
