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<strong>MANUAL</strong> DE<br />
TCC<br />
2013<br />
CONCEPTS OF HEALTHY DIET AS EXPRESSED BY PRIMARY HEALTH CARE<br />
WORKERS IN THE NATIONAL CAPITAL OF BRAZIL<br />
ABSTRACT<br />
Dietary changes in Western society highlight the need for individual and collective<br />
health providers to use their strategic positions to actively promote healthy eating<br />
habits. Using the research-action methodology in various clinics in the Federal<br />
District of Brazil, the present study aimed to identify what these professionals<br />
consider a healthy diet. The results indicate an apparent conceptual dichotomy: on<br />
the one hand, an idealized version of eating for good health based on the scientific<br />
literature; on the other, a concept derived from the ideal, but based on people’s<br />
day-to-day reality. In their pursuit of the latter concept, people in social situations<br />
make connections between various pieces of information, and what emerges are<br />
the eating habits most closely associated with a particular lifestyle. However, both<br />
concepts tend to transcend the implicit biological character of the conceptual<br />
constructs and to find support in the sociocultural conditions that shape them and<br />
which in turn are shaped at the concrete level of reality.<br />
Keywords: Health Personnel. Feed. Food Habits.<br />
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