Social and Cultural Factors Affecting Women's Nutritional Disorders

Food safety is among the important and remarkable subjects which is considered fundamental and a basic need of individuals and society so that lack of food or nutritional disorders has serious consequences and worrying reflections. This paper aims to measure nutritional disorders among female citizens of Tabriz and Intends to identify social and cultural factors affecting it. Survey method was applied and measuring instrument was localized Standard questionnaire. The study sample included 400 women and girls aged 15-49 in the year 1389 in Tabriz who were selected by stratified random sampling based on Census 1385 and the among 432 127 individuals. The results indicate the independent variables (influence of family، peers، media، religion and the impact of social comparisons)، social comparison variable has the highest influence on respondents'' level of nutritional disorders and mentioned variables explain 34% of the variable changes dependant variable (eating disorder).