Eating practices among low-income overweight /obese Brazilian mothers

A Bourdieusian approach

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2249407
AutoresPriscila De Morais Sato (0000-0001-9850-6859, Department of Nutrition School of Public Health University of São Paulo Brazil, autor de correspondencia), Mariana Dimitrov Ulian (0000-0001-7861-8597, Department of Nutrition School of Public Health University of São Paulo Brazil), Ramiro Andrés Fernandez Unsain (0000-0003-3142-0561, Universidade Federal de São Paulo), Ramiro Fernandez Unsain (Department of Health Clinic and Institutions Institute of Health and Society Federal University of São Paulo Brazil), F B Scagliusi (0000-0001-7590-4563, Universidade de São Paulo)
Año2018
Volumen40
Número7
Páginas1172-1185
Fecha de publicación2018-09-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSociology of Health & Illness (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0141-9889 • E-ISSN: 1467-9566
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/1467-9566.12748
PMID29770448
OpenAlexW2803216721
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas4
Referencias citadas16

We investigated the eating practices of socially vulnerable overweight and obese Brazilian mothers, exploring the relationships between eating practices, capitals, fields and excess-weight. We conducted a qualitative study involving in-depth interviews of 21 women living in three vulnerable urban regions. Content analyses were performed and codes were used to locate actors in relation to each other in terms of 'capitals' and 'fields', forming a typology based on Bourdieu's theory with five groups. Socioeconomic conditions during childhood and liking to cook were the main characteristics related to each group's distinct eating practices. While socioeconomic conditions during childhood were related to region of origin and food tastes, liking to cook worked as a type of cultural capital, called culinary capital, which produced pleasure and status. For each pattern of eating practices, different factors seemed to contribute to participants' excess weight, including liked foods, enjoying cooking, and financial constraints. One group combined a highly vulnerable economic situation and health problems, shedding light onto a habitus that demands special attention from public health studies and interventions. This study illustrates the complexity of practices within a seemingly homogeneous group and reinforces that health studies should not assume homogeneity within a group of overweight/obese low-income women

Childhood obesity · Cultural capital · Developmental psychology · Environmental health · Food choice · Habitus · Obesity · Overweight · Pleasure · Population · Psychiatry · Psychological intervention · Qualitative research · Social science · Socioeconomic status · Sociology · Typology · Demography · Eating Disorders and Behaviors · Medicine · Obesity and Health Practices · Psychology · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Social Psychology