Mythical Perception about food and its Causes.

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to determine what is different about myth and food and cultural role, and people's perceptions of socio-ecological food pattern and their tales. Myths and food play an important role in culture and lifestyle. How the satisfaction of their cultural myths, how they related socio-ecological foods. How they beliefs their myths related to health, culture, diets, and socio-ecological factors. People used their cultural myths every day in the life, significantly older generations in rural areas. The broader definition of food myths and health are explored concerning the commonly used traditional approach that tends to take a more reductionist approach to food myth and health. The different discourses on food myths and health are being discussed about ethical aspects of personalized nutrition. The success of customized nutrition is likely dependent upon the ability to integrate the traditional concepts with the everyday cultural and socio-ecological, and sensual understanding of food myths. Ethnographic methods were used to conducted interviews in the Alipur village province of Punjab. Survey data were collected from 40 randomly selected household heads from one village in one district, and semi-structured in-depth interviews were conducted with 26 household heads who indicated cultural practices about food myths and its causes. From the collected data results, it has pointed out the cultural traditions of food myths in a different part of the Punjab province. Keywords: Culture; Food; Myths; Perception; Socio-ecological; Punjab;