Title |
Significado externo de “alimentación correcta” en México
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Published in |
Salud colectiva, December 2016
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DOI | 10.18294/sc.2016.1103 |
Pubmed ID | |
Authors |
María Del Carmen Suárez Solana |
Abstract |
This paper uses Mintz's category of outside meaning to present the social, economic and politic context in Mexico in which the concept of "eating right" [alimentación correcta] has been constructed, from the first food-related interventions to the current social food policies. The text is divided in three periods. The first refers to the notion of "normal diet" [dieta normal] and spans from 1930 to 1980. The second is characterized by a focus on individual requirements of vitamins and minerals, going from 1980 until 2000. Finally, the third period goes from 2000 to the present, and corresponds to the concept of a "proper diet" [dieta correcta]. A main conclusion is that the underlying purpose of the food interventions has been to modernize Mexico - according to the different conceptualizations of what it meant to do so predominant in each period - while maintaining and reproducing relationships of power. |
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