Abstract
A discussion of fitness and health and its relationship to food necessarily involves chasing a moving target since the issues involved cannot claim science for their sole ancestry. In part, this is because eating is a social act. This aspect of food was succinctly described by Farb and Armelagos (1980) who stated that “All animals feed but humans alone eat.” Humans also like and dislike individual foods for other than sociological reasons. Fallon and Rozin (1983) have suggested four major categories for food rejection, each with its own profile of psychological characteristics: (1) Distaste, a sensory rejection with no objection to the presence of such foods in the body or in untastable amounts of other food. (2) Disgust, based on what the substance is with an objection to having it in the body or in other foods. (3) Danger, based on anticipated harmful consequences of eating the food. (4) Inappropriate, these substances are not considered to be food.
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Clydesdale, F.M., Francis, F.J. (1985). The Road to Fitness and Health. In: Food Nutrition and Health. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-6752-9_5
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