SOC 808 Study Guide - Final Guide: Nutrition Transition, Nutritionism, Food Security

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 808
• Professor: Jacqui Gingras

Document Summary

Chapter 14: what constitutes good food: nutritionism & colonialism, scrinis (2008) coined the term "nutritionism, cultural oppression of food and "nutrition confusion, goals (3) of food and eating in indigenous communities, expression of culture, upholding of traditions. Inclusion of co-management strategies: collective and relational approach, four principles. Find in the textbook**: what constitutes good food, capitalist and commodity exchange, distruption of environment, #nodapl, #kindermorgan, #sitec, #transmountain, #westsuwetenstrong. The shift in diet to market foods: with the westernization of indigenous communities, a shift in diet has occurred. From traditional foods towards market foods: market foods are higher in calories but lower in nutritional value, high caloric diet + sugar-rich processed foods = first world diseases, ex. Land-based: the french paradox, nutrition is not the only determinant of health, grassy narrows protest, 1970s, workers disposed barrels of salt and mercury and buried it near a river of a reserve, mercury leaked, affected agriculture.