SET THE DIET FREE
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https://doi.org/10.12957/demetra.2015.13993Keywords:
Culture. Eating. Diet. Gluten. Lactose.Abstract
This essay aims to explore the restrictive diets – the so-calledfree diets (focusing on gluten and lactose-free diet) – from asociocultural approach. To this end, different authors from thefields of Anthropology and Sociology of Food and Nutritionwere mobilized. A brief retrospective on different foods thathave undergone some sort of restriction by Nutrition experts – asbreast milk, eggs, lard, butter, milk, wheat, meat – endorse thediscussion. It can be seen that dimensions as culture, locationand territorial adjustment were ignored in the social constructionof the healthy diet concept under such restrictive view. Thisperspective overestimates nutrients at the expense of foodand generated the feeling of guilt and the idea of a restrictiveand individualized diet based on the biological view of health,apart from emotional, environmental, cultural, political andsocial values. Furthermore, this approach supports the foodindustrialization and the medicalization of Nutrition.
DOI: 10.12957/demetra.2015.13993
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