Up until I reached the age of 13, I ate almost entirely only what was put on my plate by my grandmother. I grew accustomed to whatever it was that my grandmother fed me. She carved out my ideas of food, and of what I liked. However, at the moment our ideas of food are polar opposites. My grandmother looks at food as being something you eat to fill you up, and satisfy your hunger regardless of it's nutritional value. I, on the other hand feel like you should eat when your hungry, however I believe that the meal you choose should be a healthy meal that satisfies you as opposed to filling you up.
I look at myself as a good example of someone who grew up with the same exact views of food as the person who raised them, but than grew into someone who developed their own ideas, with their own knowledge of different foods. I believe that their are many Americans, who even as adults base their diets on what they grew up with. This is definitely a trend that is amongst all Americans, the real question is if these people change their dietary habits based on new things they learn about food. The media and the society around us is what changes most peoples' views on food and how they should eat.
The people who raise us are the people who set a standard for what we should eat for the rest of our lives. It is up to us to keep consistent with those ways of eating, or to change based on the influences around them.
Overall, parents/guardians have arguably the strongest influence on what we eat, as children we don't know what is "Healthy" for us, we think food makes us big and strong and that's it. It's with knowledge that we grow older with different eating habits, which in my case is what occurred
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