BLG 700 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Nutritionism, Healthy Diet, Soul Food

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Biology
• Course: BLG 700
• Professor: Nancy Woodley

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This is the same as saying that ideas about healthy eating are socially constructed. Discourse is a way of understanding a phenomenon or an issue that circulates through a society and is enacted through everyday practices (koc et al. , p. 383). Healthy eating discourse is a particular way of understanding healthy eating that circulates through society and is reproduced (and sometimes resisted) through people"s eating practices. There are no absolute facts about healthy eating, only discourses that change over time and place. Health discourses are influenced by government directives, the media (and popular culture) and interactions between individuals. Discourses are created in a particular time period in a particular society by people who are thought to be experts, and then disseminated. There is usually more than one discourse about an issue that circulate in a particular society at the same time. Discourses compete with each other for acceptance, each touting itself as the.