II. BARRIERS TO HEALTHY EATING
A plethora of studies have examined the possible barriers
to healthy eating perceived by specific target groups of
interest. For example, the perceived barriers to healthy eating
were tested to low-income communities in Minnesota [6],
obese, treatment-seeking adults in the U.S. [7],
disadvantaged community in south Wales [8], young women
in Australia [9], and men in U.K. [10].
Lappalainen et al. [11] presented the barriers into nine
categories including; lack of time; self-control; resistance to
change; food preparation; cost of food; unpleasant foods;
influence of other people; lack of knowledge/expert
consensus; and selection influences. Other researchers
classified the barriers into two distinct categories such as
physical (external) and psychological (internal) barriers [12],