Environmental Factors

The foods you eat are mostly those sold or grown near where you live. What can you get from grocery stores, farmer's markets, schools, restaurants, vending machines, and gardens? Where you live and work will also have an impact on your food choice. You are probably going to make healthy food choices if you live closer to health food stores. On the other hand, you may be more into highly processed foods if you do not have easy access to nutritious food.

Families influence children's dietary choices and risk of obesity in a number of ways, and children develop food preferences at home that can last well into adulthood. The food that families keep at home and how family members share meals influences what and how much they eat. Just as employed adults spend most of their day at work, children spend much of their day at school. Schools are a determinant in food choices because many schools sell foods to students outside of the school meal programs. Students also have access to foods in their neighborhoods.

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