I AM LIKE YOU: REFLECTIONS ON EDUCATION AND PRACTICES IN NUTRITION FROM FAT BODY ACCEPTANCE BLOGS

Authors

  • Alana Fernandes Ribeiro Instituto de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, campus de Rio Paranaíba
  • Monise Viana Abranches Instituto de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, campus de Rio Paranaíba
  • Tatiana Coura Oliveira Instituto de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, campus de Rio Paranaíba
  • Raquel Ferreira Miranda Instituto de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, campus de Rio Paranaíba
  • Donizete Aparecido Batista Instituto de Ciências Humanas e Sociais, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, campus de Rio Paranaíba

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.12957/demetra.2017.28704

Keywords:

Obesity. Health. Social Stigma. Professional Training.

Abstract

The objective of the present study was to discuss the training model of health professionals, particularly for nutritionists, from the perspective of life experiences reported in blogs by and for women considered overweight according to the biomedical model. The blogs were analyzed from the content analysis perspective, based on the reading and interpretation criteria proposed by Bardin. Prejudice is discussed in the blogs, and the “excess” female body is seen as something “beautiful and healthy”. In addition, the non-subjection to social pressure is encouraged. Acceptance of bodies considered fat is a two-stage process: the first stage is marked by difficulties achieving the hegemonic body standard and the second by an acceptance by women of their bodies and adoption of an attitude against stigmatization. The blogs create a space for discussion in response to a culture that considers the thin body as the only way to materialize feminine subjectivities. Being healthy and obese is a paradox in the training of the nutritionist, who, based on the model of health promotion, reproduces the discourse of risk and, consequently, the social stigmatization of fat. Nutritional behavior cannot strengthen the medicalization of life. The form of care is what must be subordinated to the subjectivity of the person and not vice versa. That is because, as shown by empirical evidence, fat “is not an impediment” to success and “is not synonymous” with unhappiness or illness.

DOI: 10.12957/demetra.2017.28704

 

Author Biographies

Alana Fernandes Ribeiro, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, campus de Rio Paranaíba

Núcleo de Estudos em Relacionamento Interpessoal, Saúde e Sociedade. Curso de Nutrição

Monise Viana Abranches, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, campus de Rio Paranaíba

Núcleo de Estudos em Relacionamento Interpessoal, Saúde e Sociedade. Curso de Nutrição

Tatiana Coura Oliveira, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, campus de Rio Paranaíba

Núcleo de Estudos em Relacionamento Interpessoal, Saúde e Sociedade. Curso de Nutrição

Raquel Ferreira Miranda, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, campus de Rio Paranaíba

Núcleo de Estudos em Relacionamento Interpessoal, Saúde e Sociedade. Psicologia

Donizete Aparecido Batista, Instituto de Ciências Humanas e Sociais, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, campus de Rio Paranaíba

Núcleo de Estudos em Relacionamento Interpessoal, Saúde e Sociedade. Língua Portuguesa

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Published

2017-08-26

How to Cite

Ribeiro, A. F., Abranches, M. V., Oliveira, T. C., Miranda, R. F., & Batista, D. A. (2017). I AM LIKE YOU: REFLECTIONS ON EDUCATION AND PRACTICES IN NUTRITION FROM FAT BODY ACCEPTANCE BLOGS. DEMETRA: Food, Nutrition & Health, 12(3), 575–591. https://doi.org/10.12957/demetra.2017.28704

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Vol. 12 No. 3 (2017): THEMATIC ISSUE " TEACHING, SCIENCE AND HEALTH: CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES"

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THEMATIC ARTICLES

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