Abstract
Behaviors and eating habits are terms used in the field of Food and Nutrition, where authors perceive behaviors as controllable events and that repetition changes habits. This essay aims to understand the influence of this reductionist approach, highlighting some discussions about eating behaviors in light of Humanities, in particular Psychology and Philosophy, in order to distinguish it from eating habits. To discuss the simplified way this issue is addressed, it was sought elements on the paradigm of the complexity of Morin to understand the relationship between eating behaviors and eating habits, taking into account other strands of understanding coming from other fields of knowledge that are not reduced to simplistic logic of the traditional positivist science. From the perspective of complex thought, behavior moves from conditional action to an extension that comprises socio-cultural, subjective and individual, either conscious or unconscious dimensions, while the habit is something that makes sense in repetition for the individual, appropriating information from science to support their changes.
Keywords:
food behavior; eating habits; difference; repetition; Psychology; Philosophy.