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Attitudes and beliefs regarding food in a multi-ethnic Asian population and their association with socio-demographic variables and healthy eating intentions.

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BACKGROUND:Attitudes and beliefs regarding food are known to influence dietary behaviours and may reflect cultural traditions. Therefore, understanding the food culture in the population is important to inform culturally relevant and acceptable public health interventions. OBJECTIVE:(1) To evaluate attitudes towards pleasure and health with regard to eating and its association with healthy eating intentions. (2) To assess traditional beliefs about 'hot-cold balance' and its influence on food choice. METHODS:We conducted a cross-sectional study using an online research panel comprising of 787 male and female adults of Chinese, Malay and Indian ethnicity recruited from population-based cohorts and public housing estates in Singapore. A self-administered questionnaire was used to assess beliefs and attitudes towards food. To evaluate the association of beliefs and attitudes with socio-demographic determinants and potential consequences for healthy eating intentions, multivariable logistic regression was used with adjustment for age, gender and ethnicity. RESULTS:Beliefs about the importance of considering hot-cold balance for food choice were common among all three Asian ethnic groups and most prominent among the Chinese ethnic group (56.3% Malay, 64.5% Indian and 72.4% Chinese). The majority of participants (73.8%) often consider the effects of diet on health, but also value eating pleasure greatly (84.9%). Older age was associated with a shift in attitudes from valuing eating pleasure towards health. Valuing the importance of food for health was associated with a wide range of healthy eating intentions, whereas highly valuing eating pleasure was associated with a lower intention to reduce salt intake. CONCLUSION:In a cosmopolitan Asian population, both eating for health and eating for pleasure were valued highly and traditional beliefs regarding the hot-cold balance were held by the majority.

journal_name

Appetite

journal_title

Appetite

authors

Lim CGY,van Dam RM

doi

10.1016/j.appet.2019.104461

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2020-01-01 00:00:00

pages

104461

eissn

0195-6663

issn

1095-8304

pii

S0195-6663(19)30695-6

journal_volume

144

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Attitudes and beliefs regarding food in a multi-ethnic Asian population and their association with socio-demographic variables and healthy eating intentions.