Representations of the body: with the word one group of adolescents from popular classes

This article presents results of a research of nature quanti-qualitative on nutrition and adolescents of Centro Salesiano do Menor, located in Vitória (ES). The aim of this study was to know the nutritional profile and expectations of the adolescents in relation the changes in the nutritional profile. Structured interview with subjective and objective questions was realized with 43 adolescents 14 to 17 years old and collected anthropometric date to valuation of the state nutritional according to the body mass index (BMI). Fragments of the speeches were selected and transcripts in the text as form of briefing of the open answers. The majority (86%) was classified as eutrófica and had disclosed to dissatisfaction with the body and a great concern with the beauty. The results had evidenced the importance given to the aesthetic one, as the main reason to desire a corporal change. Difficulties had been told in what it says respect to the alimentary control and the accomplishment of physical activity. Feeling of discrimination of the society to that they do not correspond to the beauty standard appeared in the answers of the adolescents. One concludes that the adolescents present perception of its weight not have correspondence with the found results of BMI and low self-esteem, desiring changes.

O livro apresenta uma revisão histórica na área previdenciária e trabalhista a partir de 1930, relatando os avanços em relação a legislação, atuação do governo e o caminho que o País percorreu rumo a democracia, aos direitos sociais e políticos e a universalização da previdên-cia, sendo que este percurso foi denominado pelo autor como um longo caminho na história da construção da cidadania (Nota por Regina Célia Diniz Werner -PPGASC/ UFES).