Ten years ago National Geographic magazine reported that the Loma Linda Seventh-day Adventist population is one of the communities in the world that lives longer and with a higher quality of life thanks in part to the biological benefits of a vegetarian diet. Along with National Geographic, other media outlets have reported since then that the Adventist religious community considers a plant-based diet a very important factor for a healthy lifestyle. Adventists have been promoting this type of diet worldwide for more than 150 years. This article is an attempt to understand from a social-scientific perspective the origin of the importance they lend to diet and see whether this helps explain why approximately 150 years after the founding of the church, diet remains crucial for Adventists around the world. The conclusion proposed is that Adventists understood the adoption of a plant-based diet as a special divine instruction in order to nourish their new identity as a special people differentiated from the rest of society. This was possible through a desecularisation of diet that placed food in the moral category of the Adventist belief system.Keywords: Seventh-day Adventist Church; vegetarian diet; religion; health; desecularisation; identity
Introducción: La contaminación atmosférica es un problema medioambiental que afecta de manera negativa a la salud. Objetivo: Asociar los niveles de contaminación atmosférica y la morbilidad respiratoria. Materiales y Métodos: Estudio ecológico, observacional realizado a la población urbana de la ciudad de Cochabamba, del 1 de enero de 2012 al 31 de diciembre de 2016. Los datos se recolectaron a través de la Red de Monitoreo de la Calidad de Aire de Cochabamba (estaciones de Semapa, Coña Coña y Parque Kanata) y el Hospital Clínico Viedma. El análisis estadístico se realizó con la prueba de correlación de Spearman. Resultados: El promedio de casos semanales de enfermedades respiratorias presentó una correlación positiva muy baja con el promedio semanal de PM10 de las tres estaciones de monitoreo atmosférico (r = 0,181, p < 0,004; r = 0,242, p < 0,001; r = 0,183, p < 0,011) y una correlación positiva baja o muy baja con el promedio semanal de NO2 registrada cada hora (r = 0,365, p < 0,000; r = 0,127, p < 0,05). También de forma consistente se observó una correlación negativa baja con el promedio semanal de HR (r = -0,388, p < 0,000) y muy baja con el promedio semanal de precipitaciones (r = -0,250, p < 0,000). Discusión y Conclusiones: Se observó una correlación lineal positiva baja o muy baja entre los ingresos semanales por enfermedades respiratorias y el promedio de contaminantes atmosféricos en el periodo 2012-2016.
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