Our daily food choices have a lot to do with our age, gender, genetic makeup, occupation, lifestyle, where we live, and our family and cultural background.
Also religious beliefs, food flavor appearances, nutritional knowledge, current health status, peers influences, income and others. We eat primarily for nourishment, but food symbolize also much of what we think about ourselves. We can use food to project a desired image. We cope with stress and tension by eating or not eating. Food can be used as a reward, or to celebrate national holidays and religious feast days.   If we take a moment  to reflect we can see the truth in the above statement as it applies in our life. Its useful to know which foods are really important and necessary to us and which are not so important, keep one and discard the other it.  — This if we will ever succeed in making  a lasting changes with our body weight management and in longevity in general .