Concepções de alimentação saudável de idosos que frequentam a Universidade da Terceira Idade

Abstract

This work reflects on the concepts of healthy eating in third age, from which there is a plurality of meanings of what is good nutrition. The term healthy eating is connected to multiple senses similar, but is not synonymous. The definition of what is a good or bad food goes through cultural, historical, psychological and / or nutrition categories and are not always convergent, use the same explanation or reproduce the same meaning. In this study the focus is on bringing socio-anthropological studies aiming to deepen relations symbolic of eating in the third age, where the context of modernity is a panorama in which the concepts of healthy food are construction. As are this conceptions are influencing by the forms of meaning the aging today. In this way the concept of Third Age is a proposal of aging lined with the values of contemporary society, as the productivity of time and the body and that have at the Universities of the Third Age privileged place for a (re) production. According to the analysis, the concepts of healthy eating among the elderly of the studied group are connected to the values of the modern world as of practicality and the enhancement of body care. While these conceptions reproduce the tensions of urban food, such as the need for and distrust of food industry and the diversification of ways of eating. Observed among the elderly the search for nutritional rules of how to eat forward to modernity eating and the needs of the aging body. At last, the plurality of meanings of eating healthy in old age, observed in this research, points to the complexity of the studies of food, the dynamics of the construction of meanings of what is good nutrition today