Question

1. How does cultural/religious nutritional considerations positively affect your health?
2. How does your cultural/religious nutritional considerations negatively affect your health?

Please give me a couple specific examples and situations.

Answer 1

Cultural influences leads to the difference in the habitual consumption of certain foods and traditions of preperation and in certain cases can leads to restrictions such as exclusion of meat and milk from the diet, The influence of culture on health is vast it affects perception of health illness and death belief s about causes of disease aporoaches to health promotion how illness and pain are expierienced and expressed where patients seek help and the type of treatment patients prefer,Religious factors can have a major influence on whhat food we buy for examle muslims will not eat meat suc as beef or lamb that has not been slaughhtered by the halal method while those of the Jewish religion will only eat foods that are Kosher.