SOC 808 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Nutritionism, Food Desert
19 Sep 2016
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Emphasis on eating fruits and vegetables, grains, and low-fat proteins (similar to canada"s food. Emphasis on homemade foods, and meat as an important component of healthy meals. Emphasis on eating organic and avoiding agri-food chemicals and toxins. Emphasis on the environment, ethical treatment of animals and relationships with local people. Mainly (older) african-nova scotians and punjabi-british columbians, some european-nova. Nutritionism: a paradigm that reduces the value and benefits of food to its nutrients, assuming that we eat only to promote physical health (koc et al. , p. 387). This term is usually used by critics of this paradigm. Here are two reasons that scholars are critical of nutritionism: the abundant information we now have about the components of food is confusing, hard to remember or cumbersome to put into practice. Eating, shopping and growing food can be pleasurable and satisfying. It can be a building block of friendship, family, community and identity.
