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Exploring Daily Dietary Behaviour Through Examination Of The Food Choice Process, Ivy Dam
Exploring Daily Dietary Behaviour Through Examination Of The Food Choice Process, Ivy Dam
Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)
As obesity rates continue to rise, the negative health impacts associated with unhealthy food choice behaviour remain an issue of concern. Observing the connection between food consumption and weight gain alone is likely not sufficient to understanding people’s construction of food choices. More detailed examination of a novel concept, the overall food choice process (FCP), including food thoughts, plans, purchases, and preparation, leading up to food intake/consumption may contribute to an improved understanding of food choice behaviour.
This thesis explored the wider FCP that gives rise to observed food consumption by testing passive video recording technologies, …