SOC 808 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Healthy Diet, Red Meat, Michael Pollan

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 808
• Professor: Donna Appavoo

Document Summary

Contemporary understandings of healthy eating influence the ways canadians engage with food and eating b/c of discourses that link health and eating practices to identity categories defined by: gender life stage ethnicity social. Healthy eating needs to be seen as a socially constructed, shifting discourse that shapes and is shaped by what people say and do in relation to food. Discourses refers to pervasive ways of thinking that over time come to define what can be said about something, or what can even be considered to be possible. Canadians tend to conflate healthy bodies with slender bodies and healthy eating with maintaining low body weight entails watching what you eat self-surveillance employed to display assimilation into the western culture. 2 emphasized consumption of home-cooked meals based on meat, potatoes, and vegetables, as well as unprocessed foods; sees meat as important. sees meat as a key component of healthy eating. Health and nutrition professionals: emphasize eating healthy and eating less.