Eating and eating practices of higher education professionals during the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic : rearrangements and new meanings
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https://doi.org/10.12957/demetra.2023.70213Keywords:
Eating practices. Covid-19. Eating behavior. Emotional eating. Social isolation. Mental health.Abstract
Introduction: The pandemic period brought about numerous changes, with food being one of the affected elements. Objective: To understand the new arrangements and meanings of eating practices experienced during the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic by higher education professionals. Methods: This research is qualitative and exploratory. Ten professionals from the higher education sector of two federal universities in the interior of Minas Gerais were interviewed individually and remotely. The interviews were analyzed using Bardin's Thematic Analysis in conjunction with Similitude Analysis via IRAMUTEQ. Results: The interviews allowed for the identification of three thematic axes: (1) “Management of food and the body: pleasure, guilt and fear of weight gain”, exploring the conflicts that intensified in regards to the body and food choices; (2) “Social rearrangements, commensality and eating practices”; and (3) “The practice of cooking in confinement: polysemy, temporality and gender”, discussing the dynamism of food when experiencing changes in household composition, routine and work obligations. Discussion: It was possible to identify relationships between social distancing, home confinement and individual and collective eating practices. Due to the different social rearrangements, structured by the participants to deal with the pandemic-imposed restrictions, dichotomous behaviors emerged, reflecting conflicts in the face of adjusted eating practices. The nutrient-food relationship (nutritionism) was very present in the narratives, influencing thoughts and behaviors about the body and well-being. Conclusion: It is concluded that the pandemic context generated changes regarding the arrangements, representations and meanings of eating and food.
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