"He just has to like ham" - The centrality of meat in home and consumer studies

Appetite

Volumn 95, Issue , 2015, Pages 101-112

  Bohm, Ingela ^a   Lindblom, Cecilia ^a   Åbacka, Gun ^b   Bengs, Carita ^a   Hörnell, Agneta ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b ÅBO AKADEMI UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Critical food literacy; Discourse analysis; Health education; Home economics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONSUMER; EMOTIONAL STABILITY; HEALTH HAZARD; HOME; HUMAN; MEAT; NUTRITIONAL HEALTH; SCHOOL; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL NORM; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIETY; SWEDEN; TEACHER; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CONSUMER ATTITUDE; CURRICULUM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; MALE; PSYCHOLOGY; STUDENT; UNIVERSITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CONSUMER BEHAVIOR; CURRICULUM; FACULTY; FEMALE; FOOD HABITS; HUMANS; MALE; MEAT; SOCIAL NORMS; STUDENTS; SWEDEN;

EID: 84936998631     PISSN: 01956663     EISSN: 10958304     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.appet.2015.06.015     Document Type: Article

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