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Table 2 Established perceptions of healthy and unhealthy eating and factors that influence food habits

From: Food beliefs and practices in urban poor communities in Accra: implications for health interventions

Perceptions of healthy eating

Perceptions of unhealthy eating

Factors that influence food habits

Cooking habits (boiling, roasting, food hygiene)

Cooking habits (frying)

Antenatal and Post-natal food culture

Food intake (high fruit and vegetable intake, early meals)

Eating habits (high intake of fatty foods, sugar, refined carbohydrates, late meals)

Poverty

Meal content (use of fresh vegetables)

 

Significant others (Spouse, children)

Religion (forbidden versus approved foods)

Ethnicity (ethnic foods, food taboos)

  1. Source: 7,17,20,22,56