Which Factors Influence our Diet? We all know the benefits from maintaining a balanced alimentation, nonetheless not all of us follow it. Is this totally a deliberate decision or is it part owing to unaware external factors that directly affect one's food choice? This essay analyzes which ones are major influences on our diet in order to help us improve it. Since our food choice has to be based on what is currently accessible in our area, availability has an unavoidable impact on our diet. Depending on where we live and the season of the year we are in, we would have access to certain products and not others. For instance, not having a varied diet is a problem people who live in isolated places have to deal with on account of a scarce selection of comestibles. Another factor to take into account is our childhood. As children, our meals are selected or elaborated mostly by our parents, which programs a behavioral pattern in us with regard to food: kids accustomed to certain comestibles in their households are likely to have their diet shaped accordingly to them in their adulthood, for better or worse. In conclusion, we could enrich our diet should we have more awareness of factors affecting our food selection. As is explained above, availability and childhood alimentation patterns have an undeniable impact on our diet. Given that availability is unchangeable by us, we must focus on changing our learned habits in order to have a healthier lifestyle.