Cultural aspects of African American eating patterns.
Cultural aspects of African American eating patterns.
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非裔美国人饮食模式的文化方面。
DOI：
10.1080/13557858.1996.9961793
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发表时间：
1996
影响因子：
3.1
通讯作者：
Morssink,CB
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作者：
Airhihenbuwa,CO;Kumanyika,S;Agurs,TD;Lowe,A;Saunders,D;Morssink,CB
非裔美国人饮食相关疾病的高死亡率强烈表明，我们需要采用低总脂肪、饱和脂肪和盐、高纤维的饮食。然而，这样的改变会违背一些传统的非裔美国人的文化习俗。本研究采用焦点小组访谈的方式，从宾夕法尼亚州的一个城市社区招募中低收入和中等收入的非裔美国人，探讨饮食模式的文化方面。通过网络技术共招募了21名男性和32名女性，年龄在13-65岁以上。参与者确定了通常归因于非裔美国人的饮食习惯，并认为这些习惯在很大程度上与社会经济地位无关。他们不确定非裔美国人的饮食模式和非洲血统之间的联系，但清楚地知道奴隶制和经济劣势的影响。非洲裔美国人的食物模式具有适应外部条件的特点，这一观点表明，要想在非洲裔美国人社区有效地改变饮食，食物供应的变化需要先于或与向个人推荐的变化同时发生。关于在哪里和谁一起吃饭的文化态度与对特定食物的态度同等重要。这些研究结果强调，必须继续努力确定各种方法，以增加饮食咨询中文化背景和意义的相关性，以便将健康和营养干预措施固定在非裔美国人所认为的价值观上。
The high mortality from diet‐related diseases among African Americans strongly suggests a need to adopt diets lower in total fat, saturated fat and salt and higher in fiber. However, such changes would be contrary to some traditional African American cultural practices. Focus group interviews were used to explore cultural aspects of eating patterns among low‐ and middle‐income African Americans recruited from an urban community in Pennsylvania. In total, 21 males and 32 females, aged 13–65 + years were recruited using a networking technique. Participants identified eating practices commonly attributed to African Americans and felt that these were largely independent of socioeconomic status. They were uncertain about links between African American eating patterns and African origins but clear about influences of slavery and economic disadvantage. The perception that African American food patterns were characteristically adaptive to external conditions, suggest that, for effective dietary change in African American communities, changes in the food availability will need to precede or take place in parallel with changes recommended to individuals. Cultural attitudes about where and with whom food is eaten emerged as being equivalent in importance to attitudes about specific foods. These findings emphasize the importance of continued efforts to identify ways to increase the relevance of cultural context and meanings in dietary counseling so that health and nutrition interventions are anchored in values as perceived, in this case, by African Americans.