page_title: Soul food health trends
section_title: Factors affecting healthier food choices
hierarchical_section_title: Soul food health trends / Factors affecting healthier food choices
caption_attribution_description: Soul food at Powell's Place
context_page_description: Soul food is a kind of African American cuisine that emphasizes fried, roasted, and boiled food dishes using primarily chicken, pork fat, organ meats, sweet potatoes, corn, and green leafy vegetables. Since it has been embedded in African American's culture for long time with its negative effects on people's health, and given the healthy trends in modern times, both physically and mentally, it is necessary to maintain body physically and mentally fit. Healthy diets also give necessary supplements to our body. modify traditional soul food within the healthy trends and advocate it. Lastly, it will give high-profile advocates to promote soul food within health trends.
context_section_description: There are beliefs, barriers and self-efficiency issues that affect food consumption and food choice. Most commonly, people suffer from time scarcity because of planning, shopping, preparation, cooking, eating and cleaning involved. A survey was conducted between 57 Africa Americas to assess their those aspects that relate to healthy eating. It is found that although people have awareness and knowledge about healthy eating, the survey showed that there are barriers that restrict people's healthy eating, with price of healthy food as main barriers in food choice. Another research also showed that barriers of healthy eating comes from not only the price, flavour, accessibility and absence of social report, but also changes in total energy, fat intake and weight.
  More broadly, a project conducted showed that factors that influence diet and life styles come from individual, social, cultural and community aspects. The research showed that high-fat traditional food preferences, kmmonon frying and addition of salted meats to vegetables are based on ethnic differences in dietary intake and culture traditions.
  As a result, with those barriers prevent people from healthy eating, the increasing consumption relates to the demand of unhealthy soul food leads to health disparities, such as obesity, diabetes or hypertension. This is especially common among African American, which is one of the largest ethnic minority groups in United States.
caption: Traditional Soul Food
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