SOC 808 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Food Safety, Feminist Theory, Food Desert
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Discourses around healthy eating that prevail , food security,and cultural perspectives. Made 3 categories: mainstream nutrition principles eg. trans vs saturated fat, traditional home cooked, unprocessed. Idea of mom"s food, prepared, familiar: complementary/ethical carcinogens, gmos, belief systems against animal cruelty. Interactions between individuals: (i. e. within families, friends, colleagues, professionals) Canada"s food guide 1992 more colourful and changed message on butter. Reinforce or reject perhaps government message may not reinforce mainstream eating. Lobbying government message, discourse is promoted is described upon and students and people attending health care personnel is easily shifted. Nutritionism: a paradigm that reduces the values and benefits of food to this nutrients, assuming that we eat only to promote physical health . Nutrients: vitamins, proteins, carbohydrate, fat, antioxidants, trans fat, phytochemicals. Biometrics: body mass index, blood glucoses levels, hemoglobin a1c, blood lipid levels. 13% decrease of children expose to the advertising some countries moved on to ban on advertising during children media hours.
