“…Dietary habits are often determined as much by cultural traditions as they are by nutritional needs and family economics (Anderson and Whitaker, 2010;Anderson, 2012;Hughes et al, 2010;Lhila, 2011;Mata et al, 2017;Redsell et al, 2010;Vizireanu and Hruschka, 2018). Cultural factors may therefore underlie local differences in obesity and diabetes rates, which exhibit effects of local neighborhood and its built environment (Alvarado, 2016;Carroll et al, 2016;Mullan et al, 2017;Kowaleski-Jones et al, 2017), family size (Datar, 2017), ethnic group and age group (Cook et al, 2017).…”