Food Habits

Food Habits Questionnaire (FHQ)

The Food Habits Questionnaire (FHQ) is a 20 item self-report questionnaire that measures food intake habits. Questions are about typical eating patterns over the past month, and are rated on a 4-point Likert scale from 1 “Never or Rarely” to 4 “Usually or Always", or “Not applicable”. Fat intake is assessed by focusing on four food selection behaviors: excluding high-fat ingredients and high-fa...

Food habits in Britain.

It is probably true to say that, within months of birth, everyone in the world will have his own personal food preferences. These will be based on foods which have been made familiar to him either because they grow where he lives or because they can be transported there at reasonable cost, but his ultimate choice will be based on many additional personal and cultural factors. Among these are th...

Clinicians changing individual food habits.

There is ample evidence from repeat food surveys that people are actually and passively changing their food habits. Understanding the reasons for this are vital to any efforts by clinicians to enable individuals to move in an increasing healthful direction with their food intake, and to dispel the pessimism that often prevails about the ability to make a useful contribution to nutritional statu...

Food Habits, Old and New

THE ABUNDANCE and variety of man's food depend upon his control over environment. For primitive tribes this meant success in hunting and fishing, and discovery and discriminating use of roots, leaves, fruit, and seeds of wild plants. Later, as animals were domesticated and agriculture got under way, control over environment came to mean good management of crops and flocks. Today for a large par...

Insect Food Habits and Vegetation