Quinoa Buffets and Sugar Devils

Experiences of Cancer Survivorship through Food

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2631112
AutoresMai-Lei Woo Kinshella, Mai‐lei Woo Kinshella (0000-0001-5846-3014, autor de correspondencia)
Año2017
Volumen12
Fecha de publicación2017-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAnthropology of food (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1609-9168 • E-ISSN: 1609-9168
EditorialOpenEdition (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.4000/aof.8247
OpenAlexW2738792642
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas29

With an emphasis on self-management, discourses of cancer survivorship and healthy diets can become an individualizing project, which is contested through the experiences of food told by the people with a history of cancer highlighted in this article. Based on interviews with 38 women and men treated for cancer in Canada, this paper explores the experience of cancer survivorship through food. While most informants endorsed eating more healthily, they frequently had a broader understanding of healthy diets than prescribed in individualizing dietary recommendations and connected their experiences of food with values of healing. Perceived risks of an industrialized food system were embodied as cancer risks while eating natural, organic foods was seen as a way of healing themselves and engaging in an alternative, more ethical, world food system. In contrast to the demonization of sugar and processed foods, quinoa and other 'natural' health foods were seen as 'healthy' for bodies and for the world

Cancer survivorship · Demonization · Embodied cognition · Environmental health · Political science · Survivorship curve · Culinary Culture and Tourism · Law · Medicine · Nutrition, Genetics, and Disease · Obesity and Health Practices · Psychology