Food, Culture, and Obesity in a French Population

法国人口的饮食、文化和肥胖

• 批准号: 0752416
• 负责人: H. Russell Bernard
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Florida
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-09-01 至 2010-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0752416&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Food; Culture; Obesity; French; Population

University of Florida graduate student, Stacey A. Giroux, under the direction of Dr. H. Russell Bernard, will undertake sociocultural research on how changes in national dietary cultures are understood and acted upon at the level of the individual and household. There is abundant evidence that eating practices are changing worldwide, converging toward similar diets that are high in fat and sugar and low in fiber. Many nations also have escalating rates of overweight and obesity. This project will investigate the social and cultural foundations of this global phenomenon.The research will be carried out in Loire region of France, a place with strong cultural traditions in food. The researcher will collect data on how dietary changes are articulated and experienced by the French, and how the shifts in food practices and food cultures have affected their health. She will employ a mixture of qualitative and quantitative research methodologies, including participant observation of her informants as they shop and prepare meals, along with unstructured and semi-structured interviewing. She will use cognitive anthropological data elicitation tasks to model cultural food themes, she will then evaluate for saliency and individual correspondence through cultural consensus and consonance analysis. Body Mass Index information and social network data will be collected, as well, to test potential relationships among personal network features and cultural models about healthy diets and the actual onset of obesity.The research is signficant in the contribution it will make to the scientific understanding of the sociocultural pathways of changing world diets and their effects of health. The research also will contribute to the education of a graduate student.

佛罗里达大学的研究生Stacey A. Giroux将在H. Russell Bernard博士的指导下进行社会文化研究，研究如何在个人和家庭层面上理解国家饮食文化的变化并采取行动。大量证据表明，世界范围内的饮食习惯正在发生变化，趋向于高脂肪、高糖、低纤维的相似饮食。许多国家的超重和肥胖率也在不断上升。这个项目将调查这一全球现象的社会和文化基础。这项研究将在法国卢瓦尔地区进行，这是一个有着浓厚饮食文化传统的地方。研究人员将收集有关法国人如何表达和经历饮食变化的数据，以及饮食习惯和饮食文化的变化如何影响他们的健康。她将采用定性和定量相结合的研究方法，包括对她的调查对象在购物和准备饭菜时的参与性观察，以及非结构化和半结构化的访谈。她将使用认知人类学数据启发任务来模拟文化食物主题，然后通过文化共识和一致性分析来评估显着性和个体对应性。身体质量指数（Body Mass Index）信息和社交网络数据也将被收集，以测试个人网络特征和有关健康饮食和肥胖实际发病的文化模式之间的潜在关系。这项研究对科学理解改变世界饮食的社会文化途径及其对健康的影响具有重要意义。这项研究也将有助于研究生的教育。