Children, Food and Identity in Everyday Life
Children, Food and Identity in Everyday Life
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日常生活中的儿童、食物和身份
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10.1057/9780230244979_4
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2009
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人们普遍认为英国儿童大量食用快餐，很少考虑自己的健康或体重。在任何互联网搜索引擎中输入“青少年”和“快餐”，您都会发现数以百万计的网络故事和网站，重点关注快餐成瘾、提醒年轻人注意此类食品营养质量差的指南、影响吃快餐青少年的食品恐慌等等。 2008 年，英国小报《每日邮报》报道称，警方利用汉堡和夹心披萨来贿赂青少年，以改善他们的行为（《每日邮报》2008），从而将人们对垃圾食品饮食的痴迷与问题青少年联系起来。调查表明，青少年和年轻人确实比老年人食用更多的快餐1和高脂肪食物（Henderson 等人，2002 年；联合健康调查组等人，2003 年）。然而，此类研究还表明，生活在社会经济优势家庭的人们不太可能消费此类食品（Henderson 等人，2002 年；联合健康调查组等人，2003 年）。鉴于并非所有儿童似乎都同样消费快餐，因此有必要询问为什么有些人接受消费文化的这一方面，而另一些人则不然。从社会和文化的角度来看，一些孩子不吃汉堡和披萨可能会得到什么？由于青少年早期是与朋友共度时光、远离父母目光并询问“我是谁？”的时期（Miles et al. 1998；Denscombe 2001），因此可以预期，青少年比生命历程的早期阶段有更多的机会和欲望购买和吃快餐。但这样的机构如何与家庭关于食物的价值观相互作用，以及
Children in the United Kingdom are widely believed to be consuming fast food in vast quantities with little thought for their own health or weight. Enter ‘teenagers’ and ‘fast food’into any internet search engine and you will discover literally millions of web-based stories and sites focusing on addictions to fast food, guides alerting young people to the poor nutritional quality of such food, food scares affecting fast food–eating teenagers and so on. In 2008, the Daily Mail, a British tabloid newspaper, reported that the police were using burgers and stuffed crust pizza to bribe teenagers to improve their behaviour (Daily Mail 2008), thus linking the popular obsessions of junk-fuelled diets with problem youth. Surveys suggest that teenagers and young adults do consume fast food1 and foods high in fat in greater quantities than older adults (Henderson et al. 2002; Joint Health Surveys Unit et al. 2003). Such work also suggests, however, that those living in socio-economically advantaged households are less likely to consume such foods (Henderson et al. 2002; Joint Health Surveys Unit et al. 2003). Given that not all children appear to be equally consuming fast food, it is pertinent to enquire why some are buying into this aspect of consumer culture whereas others are not. What, from a social and cultural perspective, might some children gain by not eating burgers and pizzas? Since, the early teenage years are a time for spending time with friends, away from the parental gaze and asking ‘who am I?’(Miles et al. 1998; Denscombe 2001) it might be expected that teenagers have more opportunity and desire to purchase and eat fast food than during earlier parts of the life course. But how such agency interacts with family values about food, and to