Mental conditions: Anorexia is lack or loss of appetite for food. I personally think of it also as a mental issue. Eating disorders and depression also have an effect on what you eat. 
Last reason: we are hungry and we need the nutrition.

By: Jingqiao 9AVIN Kakariki

Islam eat halal foods, this includes, fruit, vegetables and eggs. If they eat meat or any products that contain meat, it must be a halal killed animal, which means it has to be slaughtered in a certain way, obeying Islamic traditions or laws. Dairy products is acceptable, cheese is allowed but depends on the ingredients. Foods that must not be eaten (haram) is:

Fasting is required during Ramadan. Ramadan happens in the 9th month of the Islamic calendar. You are not allowed to consume food or drink and medication between sunrise and sunset. Some people are allowed to refrain from Ramadan. This includes, pregnant, breastfeeding, or menstruating women, children under the age of 12, seniors who are ill.

Hinduism believe that everything has a soul and believe in reincarnation, therefore are reluctant to kill anything. 

Hindu people avoid meat and eggs. But they are allowed to eat lamb, fish, or chicken. Beef is forbidden to eat since they consider cow as a holy animal.

Some Sikhs are vegetarian. They are given a choice of what meat they eat. However, it is not allowed to eat meat from However, it is forbidden to eat meat from animals slaughtered according to religious guidelines, and therefore Sikhs do not eat halal or kosher meat.They do not drink alcohol. 

They eat fruit and vegetables. The jewish are only allowed to eat certain meat, according to the Jewish law, they are only allowed to eat meat from animals with cloven hooves and chew cud. This includes, cow, sheep and goat. However pig is not allowed to be eaten even though they have cloven hooves but do not chew cud. Chicken, turkey, duck, and goose is allowed to be consumed, but no other birds are. These birds eggs are allowed to be eaten as long as is contains no blood.

Dairy products from these animals are allowed to be eaten, but meat and dairy cannot be consumed in a certain period of time.

Only is fish with scales are allowed to be eaten but shellfish is forbidden.

Advertising

One of the influences that affect what you eat is advertising. Advertising is everywhere and you see it everyday. Food advertisements can be very persuasive and they’re everywhere you look: on TV, in supermarkets, on billboards, to name a few.

Advertisements influence in many different ways. Anything ranging from the colors used to the people starring in the adverts. The colors used draw our eyes to the adverts making us read the advert. 

For another example of the way that advertising influences our food, take the Diet Coke ads. They show slim, flirtatious women that always win over the attractive males. This places a false picture in people's minds, which affects how they look at themselves and their peers. Advertisements show you what they think the perfect life looks like, and when we see these advertisements constantly portrayed in magazines, social media and online, it changes our view of the world and makes us believe what is not true.

As said in “The Negative Effects of Advertisements on Society” by Sofo Archon; advertising makes us associate happiness with consumerism. These ad’s trick us into thinking that we need certain products to make us feel better, which is not true. We feel the need to buy things to make us change the way we appear so we are equal to society. 

Another negative effect of advertisements is that they make us think that everything we need in order to be like everyone else is on sale. They change prices from 10% to 70%, and lure us in to spending money on things we don't actually need. This makes us work harder to purchase things that we believe will make our life better when in reality it is only brainwashing us even more to believing what is not real. 

Overall, there are many ways that advertising can influence us, and the truth is it does affect each and everyone of us and there is no way to avoid it. As long as we are aware of the intentions advertisements have we can limit how much we believe them and avoid living the false life they encourage you to live. 

When I eat food I always think about the taste whether it is sweet, tangie, bitter, strong, rich or flavourless. When I taste food I always rely on the the texture and how good it tastes. If I like the texture or if I like the taste I will enjoy the meal or the snack that I'm having.

By Flicka  & Shyla
Whero 9WLBU

Take a food like chips for a moment think about when your hungry and you decide to grab a packet of chips from your cupboard, Chips have a addictive twist to them which makes them popular for an everyday day snack. Some people spend too much money because of self influence and don't think about what's good for you and what's not.

Kahurangi 9WLBU

Best before date make you decide what time you need to eat it before that time

-but most people don’t know this so they throw out milk & such because its past the best before date

-BEST before date is different to EXPIRATION dates one being its expired the other this is more crunchy before whatever

Time affects us eating food because if you are in a rush to eat something you’ll most likely eat something microwaveable or easy to cook. Also if you have lots of time in your hands you’ll probably cook something that is suitable to your taste and as well as healthy.\

Also time decides on how long you have to eat the food prepare the food and cook food and its either you can make something easy to eat or something healthy to eat.

That’s why time is important when preparing food and eating food.

By Tony & Andrew beta avalanche/blue