Assumptions of food behavior and the relevance of interdisciplinarity

For a healthy diet, mental health is a real and necessary assumption. Therefore, it is noted that the individual's eating attitude becomes even more interesting when it is observed that the personal selection of food becomes more dependent on psychic and social aspects than on the physiological needs themselves. The purpose of this article is to shed light on the aspects that influence and modulate the human food motivation process. From this perspective, it is possible to obtain the understanding that the motivational variables about the process of food change would be constituted by a multiplicity of relevant factors, among which, psychic, socio-cultural, economic, bio-physiological, and even religious. In the same agreement, it would be up to the professionals involved in the attention to food health, which would include, therefore, the nutrition professional, being attentive to the links and existing interdisciplinary influences on eating behavior, as they present themselves, as basic assumptions before an intervention and efficient and integrated food therapy.