Question

Case Study #8 – Cultural and Religious Influences on Food

Elizabet moved to the Midwest at the age of 26 years from her native country, Iceland, where she ate seafood almost every evening for dinner. She ate fruit and vegetables daily, but the variety was limited. In her new home, she complains that good seafood is hard to find—that it is not as fresh as it is at home, it tastes different, and it is more expensive. She also misses the dark brown and black breads she is accustomed to; she is willing to try American breads but is unsure what variety is “good.” American fast food is well known to her, but she does not want to rely on that to satisfy her need for familiar foods. She wants to eat foods that are healthy, tasty, and affordable.

■ What questions would you ask Elizabet before coming up with suggestions about foods she could try?

■ What would you say to her about her frustration with the seafood available locally? What suggestions would you make to her?

■ What would you tell her about healthy breads? What fruits would you recommend as healthy, tasty, and affordable? What vegetables?

Answer 1

1, Ask her are there special foods you found helpful?
can you tell me you dietary practice in your religion?
Reliogous and cultural beliefs influence person tradition, a dietary practice that affect food selection and affect with adopting the dietary practice in a different religion.
2, Tell her she can not get fresh seafood in the midwest. here fishes will be stored in sanitizing solutions and refrigerate to make it fresh, so that it was hard. Advie her to compensate the seafood with other healthy choices of consuming leafy green vegetables, walnuts, flaxseeds oil and soy oil etc.
3, healthy bread as sprouted whole grain, oat bread, flax bread, gluten-free bread as a healthier choice. advice her to eat the banana, apple, kiwis, oranges, frozen berries and in vegetable tomatoes, sweet potato, broccoli, carrot, onion, corn, green beans, spinach as an afresh, cheaper and healthy choice of eating.