PHYSICAL EDUCATION, NUTRITION AND... ALCOHOL! A PARADOX FOR THE BIOMEDICAL FIELD AND A SOCIAL DISTINCTION ELEMENT

Authors

  • Juliana Brandão Pinto de Castro
  • Francisco Romão Ferreira
  • Maria Claudia da Veiga Soares Carvalho
  • Shirley Donizete Prado

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.12957/demetra.2014.13942

Keywords:

Sentidos e significados. Distinção social. Educação Física. Nutrição. Universitários.

Abstract

This paper aims to undertake an initial approach to the senses and meanings of alcohol consumption among undergraduate students in Physical Education and Nutrition at a university in the city of Rio de Janeiro. The methodological strategy was to articulate participant observation and interviews with these students. According to the biomedical thought, there should be abstinence or at least moderation in the consumption of alcoholic beverages by students in the health field. Moreover, they should be models of good eating and body practices, anyway, considered healthy behaviors, speech that prevails among them in formal academic spaces. However, this does not always occur in everyday life of these young people who organize and/or attend various events in which they consume alcoholic beverages, sometimes in large quantities. Values related to youth, gender and body esthetics are mobilized here. These are related to social life, distinction positions in a strongly hierarchical society, reaction to the social norms and rules, among others aspects in the consumer society. Such practices of alcohol consumption can bring a paradox to the biomedical field and a social element of distinction for those students.

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.12957/demetra.2014.13942

 

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2015-01-05

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Castro, J. B. P. de, Ferreira, F. R., Carvalho, M. C. da V. S., & Prado, S. D. (2015). PHYSICAL EDUCATION, NUTRITION AND. ALCOHOL! A PARADOX FOR THE BIOMEDICAL FIELD AND A SOCIAL DISTINCTION ELEMENT. DEMETRA: Food, Nutrition & Health, 9(4), 881–892. https://doi.org/10.12957/demetra.2014.13942

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Vol. 9 No. 4 (2014)

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