People's Food Choices Reflect Their Identity

Food is a very important part of peoples lives and can tell a lot about a person. It has been shown that people 's food choices reflect their identities. Both articles demonstrate the fact that food choices reflect their identities because food is associated with emotions and feelings that impacts what they eat.

Food is connected to feelings that leads to what people eat and reflects their identities as a result . People learn to associate foods with specific emotions as they eat around the dinner table. They learn to put foods in a category of either "... desire and satisfaction, control and discipline, reward and punishment...." (Article 1). Feelings towards certain foods develop in the early stages of life, which leads to children affiliating

Food also has a negative impact on people 's feelings and emotions towards others. People judge others constantly just by what they see someone wearing or eating and thus "..the morality of food" plays a huge role in that judgement (Article 1). Many people put foods into one category, either good or bad. People who are seen eating the presumed 'bad foods ' are judged to be unattractive and not desirable. Those who eat 'good foods ' are more likely to be seen by others as nice and attractive. This leads to people becoming stressed about the foods that they eat and where they eat it. People being to overthink food and "...just enjoying food as food [becomes] impossible" (Article 1). Food then loses it 's associated feelings of happiness and satisfaction for ones of sadness and being punished. The moral judgement in food is put more on women than men. Women are seen to be appealing when they eat small portions of 'good food ', while those who eat "bad food ' are not found appealing. Men are not very often judge heavily based on what they eat and how much the eat of it. This leads to women becoming depressed and developing health problems. Food choices impact how people judge others and can lead to food becoming a negative thing that cause someone to assume what someone else 's identity is.

People 's food choices reflect their identities because food is associated with emotions that impact what they eat. This can have both a positive and negative effect on what people