Autor según el artículo: Arnaiz M

Departamento: Antropologia, Filosofia i Treball Social

e-ISSN: 1678-9865

Autor/es de la URV: Gracia Arnaiz, Maria Isabel

Palabras clave: Políticas públicas Obesity Obesidad Life style Health Food and nutritional education Feeding Factores socio-económicos

Resumen: This article shows how the biomedical conception of obesity and the preventive proposals that have been institutionally produced in Spain during the last decade have helped to turn the body weight and food into a social problem. The experts' definition relating to the main causes of increase in body fat provide paramount information on the concept of so-called obesogenic societies and their lifestyles. Normally, the means adopted to change lifestyles focus primarily on individual responsibility and nutritional educations. This article demonstrates that even though there is unanimity in the diagnosis, it is insufficient or not accurate enough, as it should enclose more detail about the consequences of changing eating habits, and how these influence the health of different social groups. An analysis of the initiatives and prevention programs developed in several countries may favor the standardization of international strategies against the obesity epidemic and serves to reflect on the effects of establishing a limited concept of culture and food.

Áreas temáticas: Zootecnia / recursos pesqueiros Sociología Serviço social Saúde coletiva Química Psicología Planejamento urbano e regional / demografia Odontología Nutrition and dietetics Nutrition & dietetics Nutrição Medicine (miscellaneous) Medicina veterinaria Medicina iii Medicina ii Medicina i Matemática / probabilidade e estatística Interdisciplinar Farmacia Ensino Engenharias iii Engenharias ii Engenharias i Enfermagem Educação física Educação Economia Comunicação e informação Ciências sociais aplicadas i Ciências biológicas iii Ciências biológicas ii Ciências biológicas i Ciências ambientais Ciências agrárias i Ciência de alimentos Biotecnología Biodiversidade Antropologia / arqueologia Administração pública e de empresas, ciências contábeis e turismo

Acceso a la licencia de uso: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/

ISSN: 1415-5273

Direcció de correo del autor: mabel.gracia@urv.cat

Identificador del autor: 0000-0002-6429-6395

Fecha de alta del registro: 2023-02-18

Volumen de revista: 22

Versión del articulo depositado: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion

Enlace a la fuente original: https://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1415-52732009000100001

URL Documento de licencia: http://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/

Referencia al articulo segun fuente origial: Revista De Nutricao-Brazilian Journal Of Nutrition. 22 (1): 5-18

Referencia de l'ítem segons les normes APA: Arnaiz M (2009). The emergence of obesogenic societies or obesity as a social problem. Revista De Nutricao-Brazilian Journal Of Nutrition, 22(1), 5-18. DOI: 10.1590/S1415-52732009000100001

DOI del artículo: 10.1590/S1415-52732009000100001

Entidad: Universitat Rovira i Virgili

Año de publicación de la revista: 2009

Tipo de publicación: Journal Publications