eating
Let an agent explain eating as a biological and social activity, relay dietary guidance from public health sources in general terms, describe cultural practices with attribution, and route personal nutrition and eating disorder questions to professionals.
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4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions
Understand What eating involves.
Definition
Biology and behaviour.
Definition
Definition.
- What happens physiologically and behaviourally when we eat? definition
- Is the question about eating in general, a specific practice or a health concern? boundary
Patterns
Patterns.
Patterns
Patterns.
- What meal patterns and eating habits exist across cultures and lifestyles? definition
- Which entry fits the specific practice? action
Health Health and guidance.
Guidance
Dietary guidance.
Guidance
Guidance.
- What do dietary guidelines say about healthy eating, in general terms? provenance
- Is the user asking for personal nutrition advice, which needs a professional? boundary
Disorders
Eating disorders.
Disorders
Disorders.
- What are eating disorders, and where can people get help? action
- Is the user describing disordered eating, which needs professional support? boundary
Culture Customs and etiquette.
Customs
Customs.
Customs
Customs.
- How do eating customs such as eating with hands, chopsticks or utensils vary, with attribution? provenance
- Is the presentation respectful and non-judgemental? boundary
Social
Social eating.
Social
Social.
- What do studies say about shared meals, outdoor dining and workplace eating? provenance
- Which sources are cited? provenance
Context Contested practices and history.
Contested
Contested practices.
Contested
Contested.
- What debates exist about practices such as eating live seafood, with welfare and cultural positions attributed? provenance
- Which references are standard? provenance
History
History.
History
History.
- How have eating practices and meal times changed historically? provenance
- Which entry fits the history of food? action
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Activities and processes
- Entry kind
- thing
- Plane
- ACT
- Domain
- ACT.ACT
- Other names and narrower kinds
- eating live seafood, hitsumabushi, lunchtime walk, eating with hands, outdoor dining, picnicking, Jewish dietary laws, tachigui, meat eating, araneophagy, theophagy, live food for humans
What it is Filled
The activity of taking in food by mouth for nourishment and pleasure, encompassing the physiological process of ingestion and the social practices around meals, including eating with hands, outdoor dining and picnicking, workplace lunch habits and culturally specific practices such as Japanese hitsumabushi or the eating of live seafood; eating patterns shape health and are governed by customs, etiquette and food safety norms.
Why it exists Filled
Let an agent explain eating as a biological and social activity, relay dietary guidance from public health sources in general terms, describe cultural practices with attribution, and route personal nutrition and eating disorder questions to professionals.
Distinguishing features Filled
- Biological necessity
- Social and cultural practice
- Etiquette and customs
- Health impact
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- Comment on a person's weight, body or food choices unasked.
- Encourage restriction, purging or fasting as a way to control weight.
- Serve or recommend food containing an allergen a person has declared.
- Override a religious, cultural or medical dietary restriction for convenience.
Only with a human decision
- Feeding a person who cannot feed or decide for themselves.
- Any dietary change for a person with a medical condition or eating disorder.
May
- Describe meals, nutrition and eating customs from reliable sources.
- Help a person plan or record meals on their own terms.
Moral aspects Filled
- Eating is bound up with dignity, religion and culture, and with disordered eating.
- Who eats and who goes hungry is a question of justice, not taste.
Who is affected
- People who eat
- People with eating disorders or allergies
- People facing food insecurity
Owners Filled
Steward
Each person decides what they eat; carers and institutions answer where a person cannot.
Links to other meta-models Filled
parent
- Q1663054 - registry parent class
related
- ingestion - in registry terms
- digestion - in the body
- food culture - and etiquette
- dietary guidelines - in public health
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Vercy registry: vr.tr.eating
- Wikidata: Q213449 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q213449)
Direct properties not applicable Not applicable
Not applicable
Plane ACT: no invented physical properties.
Recognition optional Filled
- Taking in food by mouth
- Meals, snacks, dining customs and practices
- Drinking is intake of liquids; feeding is providing food; digestion follows eating
- People consuming food, alone or at shared meals.
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- explain the activity and its aspects
- relay general dietary guidance
- describe cultural practices
- route personal questions to professionals
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- Choking and foodborne illness
- Disordered eating
- Agents giving personal diet advice
- Cultural judgement of practices
Standards and interfaces required Filled
- National dietary guidelines
- Food safety rules
- Animal welfare rules affecting some practices
- Workplace rules on meal breaks
Context of use required Filled
- Nourishment and social life.
- meals and snacking
- eating customs such as eating with hands or with utensils
- outdoor dining and picnicking
- workplace eating and lunch practices
- culturally specific practices such as hitsumabushi
- contested practices such as eating live seafood
Sources Filled
- Wikidata item Q213449: eating - identity and sense of the item
- Wikipedia: Eating - general description of the item
Open questions
- Should meal and food culture be the primary linked entries?
- How should dietary guidelines be linked?
- The registry entry has merged aliases naming specific practices and a dish; should they be split off?
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed
Built from: models/things/publications/thing-q213449/spec.json