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Bringing disgust in through the backdoor in healthy food promotion: a phenomenological perspective
Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy ( IF 2.3 ) Pub Date : 2021-06-28 , DOI: 10.1007/s11019-021-10037-0
Bas de Boer 1 , Mailin Lemke 2
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Obesity has been pointed out as one of the main current health risks leading to calls for a so-called “war on obesity”. As we show in this paper, activities that attempt to counter obesity by persuading people to adjust a specific behavior often employ a pedagogy of regret and disgust. Nowadays, however, public healthcare campaigns that aim to tackle obesity have often replaced or augmented the explicit negative depictions of obesity and/or excessive food intake with the positive promotion of healthy food items. In this paper, we draw on a phenomenological perspective on disgust to highlight that food-related disgust is connected to the character and behavior of a perceived individual even in the context of promoting healthy food items. We argue that the focus on “making the healthy food choice the easy choice” might be an important step towards the de-stigmatization of people that are affected by obesity. However, so we suggest, this focus threatens to bring back an image of individuals affected by obesity as disgusting “through the backdoor”. It does so not by portraying bodies with overweight as disgusting, but instead by implying that lifestyle choices, character and habits of people that are affected by obesity are markers of a lack of control. We argue that the close relationship between disgust and the perception of self-control in the context of obesity should be taken into consideration in the context of assessing the implications of new health promotion strategies to minimize the risk of stigmatizing people.



中文翻译:

通过健康食品推广的后门带来厌恶:现象学视角

肥胖已被指出是当前主要的健康风险之一,导致呼吁进行所谓的“肥胖战争”。正如我们在本文中所展示的,试图通过说服人们调整特定行为来对抗肥胖的活动通常采用遗憾和厌恶的教学法。然而,如今,旨在解决肥胖问题的公共医疗保健活动经常用积极宣传健康食品来取代或增加对肥胖和/或过量食物摄入的明确负面描述。在本文中,我们利用关于厌恶的现象学观点强调与食物相关的厌恶与被感知个体的性格和行为相关,即使在推广健康食品的背景下也是如此。我们认为,专注于“让健康食品的选择成为简单的选择”可能是消除肥胖影响人群污名化的重要一步。但是,因此我们建议,这种关注可能会带回受肥胖影响的个体的形象,即“通过后门”令人作呕。它不是通过将超重的身体描绘成令人厌恶的,而是暗示受肥胖影响的人的生活方式选择、性格和习惯是缺乏控制的标志。我们认为,在评估新的健康促进策略的影响时,应考虑肥胖背景下厌恶和自我控制感知之间的密切关系,以尽量减少对人们的污名化风险。但是,因此我们建议,这种关注可能会带回受肥胖影响的个体的形象,即“通过后门”令人作呕。它不是通过将超重的身体描绘成令人厌恶的,而是暗示受肥胖影响的人的生活方式选择、性格和习惯是缺乏控制的标志。我们认为,在评估新的健康促进策略的影响时,应考虑肥胖背景下厌恶和自我控制感知之间的密切关系,以尽量减少对人们的污名化风险。但是,因此我们建议,这种关注可能会带回受肥胖影响的个体的形象,即“通过后门”令人作呕。它不是通过将超重的身体描绘成令人厌恶的,而是暗示受肥胖影响的人的生活方式选择、性格和习惯是缺乏控制的标志。我们认为,在评估新的健康促进策略的影响时,应考虑肥胖背景下厌恶和自我控制感知之间的密切关系,以尽量减少对人们的污名化风险。而是暗示受肥胖影响的人的生活方式选择、性格和习惯是缺乏控制的标志。我们认为,在评估新的健康促进策略的影响时,应考虑肥胖背景下厌恶和自我控制感知之间的密切关系,以尽量减少对人们的污名化风险。而是暗示受肥胖影响的人的生活方式选择、性格和习惯是缺乏控制的标志。我们认为,在评估新的健康促进策略的影响时,应考虑肥胖背景下厌恶和自我控制感知之间的密切关系,以尽量减少对人们的污名化风险。

更新日期:2021-06-29
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