Journal of Childhood Obesity Open Access

  • ISSN: 2572-5394
  • Journal h-index: 9
  • Journal CiteScore: 1.46
  • Journal Impact Factor: 1.05
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    8 - 9 volumes 40 days
    10 and more volumes 45 days

Dietary Habits

Dietary habits are actually the food choices preferred by persons in their daily life. They differ from person to person. A healthy dietary habit helps an individual to stay fit and well throughout his life. Healthy diet includes fruits, vegetables, cereals, water, low fat dairy products, etc.

Dietary habits are the habitual decisions an individual or culture makes when choosing what foods to eat. The word diet often implies the use of specific intake of nutrition for health or weight-management reasons . Although humans are omnivores, each culture and each person holds some food preferences or some food taboos. This may be due to personal tastes or ethical reasons. Individual dietary choices may be more or less healthy. Dietary habits and choices play a significant role in the quality of life, health and longevity. It can define cultures and play a role in religion.