Engaging with healthy eating discourse(s): Ways of knowing about food and health in three ethnocultural groups in Canada

Appetite

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 167-178

  Ristovski Slijepcevic, Svetlana ^a   Chapman, Gwen E ^a   Beagan, Brenda L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Culture; Discourse; Foucault; Healthy eating; Qualitative; Technologies of the self

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANADA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; FOOD PREFERENCE; HUMAN; MALE; POPULATION RESEARCH;

ADULT; AFRICA; BRITISH COLUMBIA; CULTURE; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; FOOD; HEALTH; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOVA SCOTIA;

EID: 36049045465     PISSN: 01956663     EISSN: 10958304     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.appet.2007.07.001     Document Type: Article

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