To teach factors affecting healthy food choice (physical, economic, psychological and biological determinants) and food behaviour models that direct people to make healthy food choices.

Importance of healthy food choices in adequate and balanced nutrition, biological determinants such as hunger, appetite, and taste, appetite mechanism, regulation and food choice, taste preferences and food choice ( sweet, salty, sour, bitter tastes), influence of genetic taste markers on food choice , economic determinants such as cost,income, availability, physical determinants such as access, education, skills (e.g. cooking) and time, social determinants such as culture, family, peers and meal patterns , psychological determinants such as mood, stress and guilt, food neophobia and learning to choice new foods, barriers to dietary and lifestyle change and models for changing food behaviour, factors affecting purchasing behavior of consumers, food labels and nutrient profiles, food choices in childhood, food choice and taste preferences in obesity, food choices and eating disorders