User:Chalbeis/Food trends

Changing Lifestyles

People decide not to diet, but to alter their lifestyles by taking on simplistic nutrition/lifestyle changes, such as eating only organically or locally grown foods, eating hormone-free and non-processed meals, etc. People choose to approach these lifestyles and it affects them/what they gain from it.

Influence of Media

Media affects how people diet. For example, there are commercials that advertise special pills, juice fasts, raw diets, and all-soy diets. Celebrity influence and endorsing of food products and particular diets that promise dramatic results in such little time are prevalent. Audiences are impressionable depending on their age range.

Food Blogs

Style blogs showcase slender young women posing in the latest fashions. Young girls see these and want to emulate their style. Before they go to the clothing racks though, they assess their body image and decide that what they see is the first thing that needs to change in order to be “stylish”. Blogging is not the only influence responsible. Celebrities, movies, and television also contribute, as well as commercials advertising the latest diet crazes. Or, some people may want a simple lifestyle and choose to adopt a strictly organic approach to eating. Organic food promotion is really popular, especially now with the rise of the green living trend. The social norms approach helps to understand how people allow what is popular and socially accepted dictate how they consume food and why they commit themselves to these lifestyles and habits.