Eating like a man. Food, masculinities and self-care behavior

Fidolini, Vulca

doi:10.1080/15528014.2021.1882795

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“…This finding suggests that variation in hormone levels—including between individuals with the same chromosomal sex—could influence mitochondrial behavior regardless of sex assigned at birth. Moreover, independent of biological sex, gender (e.g., identifying as a woman, man, or another identity; being more traditionally masculine or feminine) influences diet, 60–62 physical activity, 63–66 sleep, 67–69 and other health behaviors 70–72 . In turn, these factors can drive physiological differences in mitochondrial biology.…”

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Human studies of mitochondrial biology demonstrate an overall lack of binary sex differences: A multivariate meta‐analysis

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Mitochondria are maternally inherited organelles that play critical tissue‐specific roles, including hormone synthesis and energy production, that influence human development, health, and aging. However, whether mitochondria from women and men exhibit consistent biological differences remains unclear, representing a major gap in knowledge. This meta‐analysis systematically examined four domains and six subdomains of mitochondrial biology (total 39 measures), including mitochondrial content, respiratory capacity, reactive oxygen species (ROS) production, morphometry, and mitochondrial DNA copy number. Standardized effect sizes (Hedge's g) of sex differences were computed for each measure using data in 2258 participants (51.5% women) from 50 studies. Only two measures demonstrated aggregate binary sex differences: higher mitochondrial content in women's WAT and isolated leukocyte subpopulations (g = 0.20, χ2 p = .01), and higher ROS production in men's skeletal muscle (g = 0.49, χ2 p < .0001). Sex differences showed weak to no correlation with age or BMI. Studies with small sample sizes tended to overestimate effect sizes (r = −.17, p < .001), and sex differences varied by tissue examined. Our findings point to a wide variability of findings in the literature concerning possible binary sex differences in mitochondrial biology. Studies specifically designed to capture sex‐ and gender‐related differences in mitochondrial biology are needed, including detailed considerations of physical activity and sex hormones.

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Human studies of mitochondrial biology demonstrate an overall lack of binary sex differences: A multivariate meta‐analysis

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“…The first one is the caring masculinity introduced by Hanlon (2012) in his study on the caring activities of Irish men, where he analyses men’s engagement and attitudes to the caring work with a special focus on both physical and emotional aspects of care and their meaning in men’s lives. The concept has been further developed by scholars analyzing the role of men in gender equality in Europe (Scambor et al, 2014) with an emphasis on men’s paid care work (Scambor et al, 2015), paternal roles (Graf and Wojnicka, 2021) and used in the analysis of men’s practices in the area of food production (Fidolini, 2021) or male friendship (Elliott, 2020). Finally, the concept has been popularized by Elliott (2016), who summarized caring masculinity’s main theoretical assumptions.…”

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What’s masculinity got to do with it? The COVID-19 pandemic, men and care

Wojnicka

2022

European Journal of Women's Studies

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Early data from several countries regarding the gendered implications of COVID-19 suggest that men are more likely to die as an effect of infection. This has been explained by biological factors but also by behavioral and life-style issues characteristic mostly for men. What has not been widely discussed, however, is the analysis of the relationships between men's responses to the crisis, their (lack of) care activities, and certain models of masculinity that persist in many societies. In this paper, I use a three dimensional model of care – a) self-care, b) care for others, and c) care for one's society – in order to analyze how certain masculine behaviors, rooted in socially constructed gender performances, resonate with the COVID-19 pandemic. The data used in this paper are of secondary character and will serve to analyze the most common responses of men within the three dimensions of care mentioned above. The theoretical framework utilizes the notion of caring masculinity supported by an emerging theory of protective masculinity.

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“…This finding suggests that variation in hormone levels – including between individuals with the same chromosomal sex – could influence mitochondrial behavior regardless of sex assigned at birth. Moreover, well-documented influences of gender as a social position on one’s diet (58–60), physical activity (61–64), sleep (65–67), and other health behaviors (68–70) are not captured by a binary sex classification, and may be responsible for physiological differences otherwise superficially attributed to biological sex (30). Sexual characteristics can also vary within a single person over time: gender role-related health behaviors change with marital status (71–73), and sex hormones are altered with parental role transitions (74), common conditions like polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) (75), and due to menopause or andropause (49, 76).…”

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Human studies of mitochondrial biology demonstrate an overall lack of binary sex differences: A multivariate meta-analysis

Junker

Wang

Gouspillou

et al. 2021

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Mitochondria are maternally inherited organelles that play critical tissue-specific roles, including hormone synthesis and energy production, that influence development, health, and aging. However, whether mitochondria from women and men exhibit consistent biological differences remains unclear, representing a major gap in biomedical knowledge. This meta-analysis systematically examined 4 domains and 6 subdomains of mitochondrial biology (total 39 measures), including mitochondrial content, respiratory capacity, reactive oxygen species (ROS) production, morphometry, and mitochondrial DNA copy number. Standardized effect sizes (Hedge’s g) of sex differences were computed for each measure using data in 2,258 participants (51.5% women) from 50 studies. Only two measures demonstrated aggregate binary sex differences: higher mitochondrial content in women (g = 0.20, χ2 p = 0.01), and higher ROS production in skeletal muscle in men (g = 0.49, χ2 p < 0.0001). differences showed weak to Sex no correlation with age or BMI. Studies with small sample sizes tended to overestimate effect sizes (r = -0.17, p < 0.001), and sex differences varied by tissue examined. Our findings point to a wide variability of findings in the literature concerning possible binary sex differences in mitochondrial biology. Studies specifically designed to capture sex- and gender-related differences in mitochondrial biology are needed, including detailed considerations of physical activity and sex hormones.

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Eating like a man. Food, masculinities and self-care behavior

Cited by 11 publications

References 34 publications

Human studies of mitochondrial biology demonstrate an overall lack of binary sex differences: A multivariate meta‐analysis

Human studies of mitochondrial biology demonstrate an overall lack of binary sex differences: A multivariate meta‐analysis

What’s masculinity got to do with it? The COVID-19 pandemic, men and care

Human studies of mitochondrial biology demonstrate an overall lack of binary sex differences: A multivariate meta-analysis

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