Cultures of Nutrition: Classification, Food Policy, and Health.
Med Anthropol
; 40(1): 79-97, 2021 01.
Article
em En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-33275461
Nutrition policymakers frequently treat their knowledge of nutrition as acultural and universal. We analyze food guidelines in Mexico and Guatemala to draw attention to embedded, but often unrecognized, cultural values of standardization and individual responsibility. We suggest that nutrition policy would be improved by attending to the cultural values within nutrition science, and that nutrition guidelines should attend not only to other people's cultures but to what we are calling "cultures of nutrition." We conclude by offering an example of an adaptive approach to policy-making that may be useful for handling situations where many different cultures of nutrition collide.
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01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Saúde Pública
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Política Nutricional
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Dieta
Tipo de estudo:
Guideline
Aspecto:
Determinantes_sociais_saude
Limite:
Humans
País/Região como assunto:
America central
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Guatemala
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Mexico
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Med Anthropol
Ano de publicação:
2021
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Estados Unidos
País de publicação:
Estados Unidos