How would you define healthy food? Social representations of Brazilian, French and Spanish dietitians and young laywomen

Gaspar, Maria Clara de Moraes Prata; García, Araceli Muñoz; Killinger, Cristina Larrea

doi:10.1016/j.appet.2020.104728

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“…In this regard, considering that individuals perceive functional food consumption as an element of social status among luxury products, the perceived social value in functional food consumption can be argued to affect the consumption tendencies and intentions of the individual. Perceived social value, therefore, is also an important factor in the consumption of functional foods (Gaspar et al, 2020;Barauskaite et al, 2018). Evidence regarding the impact of healthy foods as a means of social value and differentiation on consumption intentions has recently been brought forward by Barauskaite et al (2018), Gaspar et al (2020) and Chen and Antonelli (2020).…”

Section: The Role Of Health Knowledge Levelsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Perceived social value, therefore, is also an important factor in the consumption of functional foods (Gaspar et al, 2020;Barauskaite et al, 2018). Evidence regarding the impact of healthy foods as a means of social value and differentiation on consumption intentions has recently been brought forward by Barauskaite et al (2018), Gaspar et al (2020) and Chen and Antonelli (2020).…”

Section: The Role Of Health Knowledge Levelsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Do health anxiety and social value shape the intention to consume functional food: the role of health knowledge levels—evidence from Istanbul

Kurkcu,

Üstünsoy,

Dedeoğlu

2023

BFJ

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PurposeThis study has two main purposes. First, the effects of health anxiety and perceived social value on the intention to consume functional food were examined. Second, the role of health knowledge levels in these relationships was identified.Design/methodology/approachThe sample consisted of 271 restaurant consumers on the European side of Istanbul between August and October 2021. Partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) was used to test the research model.FindingsRestaurant consumers revealed that health anxiety and perceived social value positively affect functional food consumption intentions. Moreover, health knowledge levels have a negative moderating effect on the relationship between health anxiety and functional food consumption intentions.Originality/valueThanks to the findings of this study, the roles of health anxiety, perceived social value and health knowledge in functional food consumption were determined, thus filling a vital literature gap.

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Section: The Role Of Health Knowledge Levelsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: The Role Of Health Knowledge Levelsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Do health anxiety and social value shape the intention to consume functional food: the role of health knowledge levels—evidence from Istanbul

Kurkcu,

Üstünsoy,

Dedeoğlu

2023

BFJ

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“…In Brazil, routine habits such as eating, cooking, cleaning, and personal care are not sustainable ( 37 ), and they include FW resulting from exaggerated foodstuffs purchase ( 36 ). Some cultures—such as North-American and Brazilian—understand abundance as social growth and it directly implies (un)sustainable consequences ( 37 , 38 ). Moreover, domestic and routine habits are cultural and unconscious habits that follow moral and belonging rules ( 37 ).…”

Section: Food Supply Management In the Modern Worldmentioning

confidence: 99%

Hunger, Obesity, Public Policies, and Food-Based Dietary Guidelines: A Reflection Considering the Socio-Environmental World Context

Amorim

Barbosa²,

Sobral

2022

Front. Nutr.

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Nowadays, the world has been characterized by hunger, obesity, and food loss and waste (FLW). With the COVID-19 pandemic, the food issue became more intense, serious, and evident. Hunger demands urgent actions. Obesity levels have been raised and are removing health and quality of life from the population. Production planting practices and the food supply chain are not necessarily ecologically friendly. Sustainability issues greatly intensify social problems. As well as food loss (FL), food waste (FW), and sustainability concerns, obesity, and malnutrition are enhanced due to the lack of knowledge by the population. Processed food (PF), packaging, and additives, despite still needing improvement, are essential to food security control. Nowadays, hunger is not due to insufficient agricultural practices but rather to inequality and absence of adequate public policies. In the context of a certain abundance of food production and processing, the hunger scenario in contrast to FLW is an ethical, social, moral, and sustainable issue. In this context, a Food-Based Dietary Guideline (FBDG) can be an important public policy tool from the health, nutrition, environmental, and educational points of view. Despite the effort, the literature shows that FBDGs can be better used to fulfill healthiness and sustainability purposes. In this scenario, the elaboration/revision of the FBDG, adopting a clearer, simpler, and a better-suited communication strategy is essential. In this way, this article discusses the importance of the FBDG as a public policy tool, not only regarding health issues but also communication strategies, production sustainability, and humanitarian ones, which are crucial to FBDG's efficiency.

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“…This is especially true for conditions that are directly related to eating, a practice that is politically, culturally and socially encoded (Douglas, 1966; Lupton, 1994; Mintz & Bois, 2002). Ideas about the healthfulness and nutritiousness of foods reflect sociocultural attitudes and norms; in this way, the recommendations of physicians and dietitians are not purely based on objective, empirical findings (Gaspar et al., 2020). Because medicalisation is influenced by the social milieu (Conrad & Schneider, 1992), nutritional discourses and messages about health change over time (Burt, 2021; Coveney, 2006; Díaz‐Méndez & Gómez‐Benito, 2010).…”

Section: The Medicalisation Of Eatingmentioning

confidence: 99%

White as milk: Biocentric bias in the framing of lactose intolerance and lactase persistence

Kaufman

Tan

2022

Sociology Health & Illness

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The majority of the world population is lactose intolerant, as 65%-70% of people lose the enzymes to digest lactose after infancy. Yet, in the United States, where lactose intolerance is predicted to affect only 36% of people, this phenomenon is often framed as a deficiency as opposed to the norm. This is because the United States has a higher prevalence of people who are lactase persistent. Lactase persistence is a genetic trait most common among Europeans and some African, Middle Eastern and southern Asian groups with a history of animal domestication and milk consumption. In this study, we take the case of lactose intolerance to examine how popular media maintains biocentric biases. Analysing relevant articles published in The New York Times and Scientific American between 1971 and 2020, we document how ideas about milk, health and race evolve over time. Over this fifty-year period, writers shifted from framing lactose intolerance as racial difference to lactase persistence as evolutionary genetics. Yet, articles on the osteoporosis 'epidemic' and vitamin D deficiency worked to perpetuate lactose intolerance as a health concern and standardise the dairy-heavy American diet.Studying media portrayals of lactose intolerance and lactase persistence, we argue that popular discourses normalise biocentric biases through messages about eating behaviours and health.

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How would you define healthy food? Social representations of Brazilian, French and Spanish dietitians and young laywomen

Cited by 33 publications

References 36 publications

Do health anxiety and social value shape the intention to consume functional food: the role of health knowledge levels—evidence from Istanbul

Do health anxiety and social value shape the intention to consume functional food: the role of health knowledge levels—evidence from Istanbul

Hunger, Obesity, Public Policies, and Food-Based Dietary Guidelines: A Reflection Considering the Socio-Environmental World Context

White as milk: Biocentric bias in the framing of lactose intolerance and lactase persistence

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