“LOW CARB, HIGH FAT”: COMMENSALITY AND SOCIABILITY IN RESTRICTIVE DIETS TIMES

Authors

  • Joana Angélica Pellerano Escola Superior de Propaganda e Marketing – ESPM/SP
  • Maria Henriqueta Sperandio Garcia Gimenes-Minasse Universidade Federal de São Carlos

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.12957/demetra.2015.16108

Keywords:

Eating habits. Trendy diets. Commensality. Sociability. Eating.

Abstract

Throughout the history of mankind, concerns related to health,well-being and fitness have boosted the occurrence of differentdietary trends, which reflect not only scientific discoveries, butalso the afflictions of every age. This paper presents a preliminaryreflection on restrictive diets adopted nowadays, especially withregard to the spread of these new habits and the strategiesadopted by dieters, as well as the impacts of these new waysof eating in terms of exercising commensality and sociability.Therefore, a literature review was conducted on the subjectand also an analysis of two semi-structured interviews withrespondents who currently follow restrictive diets that prescribehigh protein and low carbohydrate intakes: Paleolithic andDukan. The results point to a structural change in eating habitsand the search for new forms of commensality and sociabilitythat support and enhance these new food choices.

DOI: 10.12957/demetra.2015.16108

Author Biographies

Joana Angélica Pellerano, Escola Superior de Propaganda e Marketing – ESPM/SP

Jornalista, Mestre em Ciências Sociais pela PUC de São Paulo, doutoranda do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Comunicação e Práticas de Consumo - ESPM

Maria Henriqueta Sperandio Garcia Gimenes-Minasse, Universidade Federal de São Carlos

Bacharel em Turismo, Mestre em Sociologia, Doutora em História pela Universidade Federal do Paraná. Professora no Departamento de Geografia, Turismo e Humanidades, Universidade Federal de São Carlos

Downloads

Published

2015-08-21

How to Cite

Pellerano, J. A., & Gimenes-Minasse, M. H. S. G. (2015). “LOW CARB, HIGH FAT”: COMMENSALITY AND SOCIABILITY IN RESTRICTIVE DIETS TIMES. DEMETRA: Food, Nutrition & Health, 10(3), 493–506. https://doi.org/10.12957/demetra.2015.16108

Issue

Vol. 10 No. 3 (2015): NÚMERO TEMÁTICO "DIÁLOGOS NO CAMPO DA ANTROPOLOGIA DA ALIMENTAÇÃO"

Section

THEMATIC ARTICLES

License

 

                  STATEMENT OF AUTHORSHIP RESPONSIBILITY

 

Title of the manuscript:

________________________________________________________

 

1. Statement of responsability

I certify that I have participated in the work above specified and take public responsibility for its content.

I certify that the manuscript represents an original work and that none of the material in the manuscript has been previously published, is included in another manuscript, or is currently under consideration for publication elsewhere, whether in printed form or in electronic media, except that described in the attachment.

In case of acceptance of this text by Demetra: Alimentação, Nutrição & Saude, I declare to be in accordance with the policy of public access and copyright adopted by Demetra, which provides as follows: (a) the authors retain the copyright and grant to the Journal the right of first publication, the work being simultaneously licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which allows the sharing of the work with acknowledgment of authorship and initial publication in this journal; (b) authors are authorized to enter additional contracts separately for non-exclusive distribution of the version of the work published in this journal (eg, publishing in institutional repository or book chapter), with acknowledgment of authorship and initial publication in this journal; and (c) authors are permitted and encouraged to post and distribute their work online (eg, in institutional repositories or on their personal page) at any point before or during the editorial process, as this may lead to productive changes, as well as increase the impact and citation of the published work.

 

2. Conflict of Interest Statement

I certify that there is no conflict of interest in connection with the submitted article.

 

Date, signature and full address of all authors.