Maneras de comer hoy. Comprender la modernidad alimentaria desde y más allá de las normas

Abstract

Numerous studies on the eating habits of industrialized societies have focused on analyzing the direction in which diet is moving. Most of these studies have been carried out either from an economic point of view (discussing purchases and changes in expenditure) or from a nutritional point of view (describing changes in diet). From these perspectives, current practices, which fall under the umbrella of the so-called dietary modernity, are the object of medical are the objet of medical concerns and socioeconomic uncertainties that must be addressed because "people in modern societies do not know how to eat". Some of the hypotheses formulated from the anthropological and sociological standpoints that have accepted the destructuring of contemporary eating habits have been used to support to a large extent both medical and nutritional intervention and the business of the food industry. Other hypotheses, on the other hand, have openly criticized the acceptance of this supposed destructuring. Central to the debate is the need to design studies that can characterize eating habits methodologically, highlight which factors are really behind these habits, and reveal whether these habits are indeed changing.