Eating Practices and Dietary Health

Abstract

What makes individuals eat healthily? The answer to this question is central for interventions and policies aiming to promote dietary health in populations. Social psychological approaches have shown that cognitive factors, such as reflexivity, and deliberate decisions and intentions promote dietary health (Bandura 2004), and that the motivation to eat healthily has an effect on intentions and behaviors related to healthy eating (Backman et al. 2002; Brug 2008; Connor et al. 2002; Sheeshka et al. 1993).