Eating Habits/ Mekgwa Ya Hoja

Items

• Anorexia

  Lack or loss of appetite for food
• Appetite

  The psychological desire to eat; a learned motivation and a positive sensation that accompanies the sight, smell, or thought of appealing foods
• Behaviour

  The way in which one acts or conducts oneself
• Eating pattern

  Customary quantities, proportions, and frequencies of consuming various foods and beverages over time
• Food taboos

  Abstaining from food and/or beverage consumption due to religious and cultural reasons
• Food preferences

  The evaluative attitudes that people express toward foods
• Food beliefs

  Individual and societal ideals about food
• Hunger

  Physiological need to eat, experienced as a drive for obtaining food; an unpleasant sensation that demands relief
• Lifestyle

  The way in which a person lives
• Motivation

  A reason or reasons for acting or behaving in a particular way
• Perception

  The way in which something is regarded, understood, or interpreted
• Satiation

  The perception of fullness that builds throughout a meal, eventually reaching the degree of fullness and satisfaction that halts eating
• Satiety

  The perception of fullness that lingers after a meal and inhibits eating until the next mealtime