‘I OUGHT TO REEDUCATE MYSELF’: NORMATIVE DISCOURSES AND EATING PRACTICES RELATED TO WEIGHT LOSS IN WOMEN OF THE POPULAR STRATA
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https://doi.org/10.12957/demetra.2017.28699Keywords:
Healthy Eating Habits. Dietary And Nutritional Education. Overweight.Abstract
The current article is a reflection about how normative discourses related to eating and health are held by overweight women, by considering that these discourses focus on dietary education and reeducation guidelines and actions. Educational feeding practices are historically based on the logic of risk driving the discourse on health, which include obesity-control approaches and interventions. Based on an ethnographic research carried out with women of the popular strata treated at a healthcare center in Rio de Janeiro, the reflections problematize the difficulty of connecting little-detailed information to a reflective and self-care process. The idea of rationality of autonomous subjects informed about the “nutritional value” of food or about the “risk of illness” is translated into guidelines that show limited results. The concepts of dietary education and reeducation found in the informants’ narratives show a model that ignores aspects related to the material conditions and sociocultural identity of the groups, since it suggests habit changes that do not comply with the daily life of these individuals.
DOI: 10.12957/demetra.2017.28699
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