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Dietary preference is an individual's tendency to regularly chose a certain type of diet. Common dietary preferences include omnivore, in which a person might choose to eat any of the food available to them; vegetarianism or veganism, in which a person abstains from eating meat or animal products; health based preferences such as healthy diet or low sodium diet, or cultural food and drink prohibitions including religious diets like kosher food or Islamic dietary laws as well as taboos such as insects for food.

List of diets
Popular categories of diets include restrictions on including animal products; diets for the practice of "dieting" to cause weight loss or weight gain; diets for a religious or belief system; or medical diets.

Diet at the Olympic Games
The Olympic Games have been a special focus of study because the organizers document it, it hosts an extraordinarily diverse group of individuals who each express their own dietary needs, and because every country hosting it has their own way of attempting to make a good presentation to the guests.

History of dietary preference
In traditional society the idea of dietary preference was less obvious because societies were more homogeneous and had less cross-cultural interaction. Modern society has more individuals more commonly having distinct dietary preferences for reasons including increased cultural diversity, culture industry, consumer choice, and accomodation for special needs.

Globalization has led to convergences of dietary preferences where diets various diets mix with each other.