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What does talking about nutrition and nutrition quality mean? It means that we talk about the food we eat, about calories, the energy we need and take in every day, about safe food and about quality standards, about labelling and information on content and origin, about diet, a diet more or less diverse, a diet which is good or bad for us. So, when we are talking about nutrition, it is not just about what we eat. It is about how we eat and why we eat this way or that and how we think about our nutrition [3–5]. We are talking about us, about ourselves, about our lifestyles, our skills to handle food and meals, our behaviors in general and our nutritional behaviors in particular, and also about the conditions we live in.

This means that the quality of our nutrition, whether our diet is healthy or not, whether “it is health promoting” or not, significantly depends on how we live, how we learn, what we know about ourselves and about nutrition, whether we are able and motivated to act in a way that is appropriate for us, and whether we develop a lifestyle which fits our needs and allows us to nourish ourselves accordingly.

Physical activity is an important issue in that context [6]. Yet, knowledge and motivation are not sufficient. It is equally important to create both the physical and the social opportunity, which enable me to actually do what I am motivated to do. In fact, behavior emerges from the interaction between 3 necessary conditions: knowledge, motivation, and opportunity.