Lifestyles



Lifestyles

In 40 years, the Americans have changed their eating habits: their lifestyles have changed and they are paying increasing attention to health issues. They are abandoning more traditional products with high nutritional value, like sugars and fats raw. Per capita consumption of red meat has declined since the mid-1980s. Conversely, the poultry increases, benefiting from favorable relative prices. Moreover, the constraints of modern life lead households to prefer products ready. Processed meats are a great success since the 1950s. Sweets, pastries and soft drinks are also increasingly in demand, especially by young people.

From 1960 to 2001, the household food consumption has increased less rapidly than the overall consumer spending: 2.3% against 3.2% per year in volume (see Food consumption - definitions). However, food remains one of the first items of expenditure (14% of total values ??in 2001), after housing (24%) and transport (15.4%). These expenditures must be added those meals eaten away from home, which has increased instead. In the total food budget, their share has doubled in value between 1960 and 1980, reaching 22%. It then stabilized.

Growth in food expenditures occurs mainly during the 1960s (2.7% increase per capita per year from 1960 to 1973): the increase in purchasing power allows households to better meet their needs essential.

Thesis Statement: Consumption Related to Family Lifestyles in Automobile Use in the 1950s Compared to Now Have Changed Deeply and Not in the Positive Way, And Three Important Changes in Term of Consumption are Walking, Commuting, And Eating Out

Similarly in the last forty years, the share of automobile consumption has almost doubled in value and volume: it is 14% in 2000, against 8% in 1950. However this figure has stabilized since the early 80s. From 1950 to 2000, household consumption in new cars has increased in value by 10% per year ...