Thesis (M.S.)--California Polytechnic State University, 2008. / Mode of access: Internet. Title from PDF title page; viewed on April 20, 2009. Major professor: Susan Hawk, Ph.D., R.D. "Presented to the faculty of California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo." "In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Agriculture, with Specialization in Food Science and Nutrition." "August 2008." Includes bibliographical references (p. 72-78). Also available on microfiche.

Orientador: Leila Marrach Basto de Albuquerque / Banca: Ronilda Ribeiro / Banca: Luiz Augusto Normanha Lima / Resumo: Podemos dizer que a alimentação é uma junção entre o natural - sobrevivência - e o cultural - encarregado, este, de ditar todo o resto. Apesar da internacionalização da indústria alimentícia, culturas diferentes, religiões e estilos de vida podem ditar o que se deve comer e o que não se deve. Nesse conjunto de interditos e modos de se alimentar inclui-se o vegetarianismo, que vem atraindo contingentes populacionais significativos na contemporaneidade. Isto tem conseqüências para a questão da corporeidade, se levarmos em consideração que o que se come nos constitui, no sentido biológico e natural, mas que na verdade é ditado pela cultura e pela história. A pesquisa foi realizada na cidade de Rio Claro, com pessoas que possuem como escolha alimentar o vegetarianismo. Os dados foram coletados através de fontes primárias e secundárias. Nesse sentido, este projeto de pesquisa teve como problema compreender, entre pessoas que presentemente adotam a alimentação vegetariana, os objetivos que norteiam esta opção, como representam "os corpos" e como concebem a relação com a posição do homem na natureza. Após a análise dos resultados pudemos perceber que existe uma intermitência na prática do vegetarianismo. Foi possível constatar que argumentos ambientalistas, argumentos científicos relacionados à saúde e argumentos religiosos legitimam a prática vegetariana. Em relação aos cuidados com a saúde, os vegetarianos possuem práticas que denominamos de naturalistas, ou seja, que vão contra a biomedicina. A atividade física é caracterizada pelas práticas alternativas e o vegetariano pode ser caracterizado por uma junção entre o corpo, o espírito e o meio ambiente. Estudos que relacionam alimentação e corporeidades trazem questionamentos interessantes e inovadores para os profissionais de educação física e da motricidade humana. / Abstract: We can say that the feeding is a junction between natural - survival - and cultural - in charge one, this, to dictate the remaining portion all. Although the different internationalization of the nourishing industry, cultures, religions and styles of life can dictate what if it must eat and what not if must. In this set of interdicts and ways of if feeding the vegetarianism is included, that comes attracting contingent population significant currently. This has consequences for question of body image, if to lead in consideration that what it is eaten constitutes in them, in the biological and natural direction, but that in the truth is dictated by the culture and history. The research was carried through in the city of Rio Claro, with people whom they possess as alimentary choice the vegetarianism. The data had been collected through primary and secondary sources. In this direction, this project of research had as problem to understand, between people who presently adopt the vegetarian feeding, the objectives that guide this option, as they represent "the bodies" and as they conceive the relation with the position of the man in the nature. After the analysis of the results we could perceive that a phases in the practical one of the vegetarianism exists. It was possible to evidence those ambient arguments, scientific arguments related to the health and religious arguments legitimize the practical vegetarian. In relation to the cares with the health, the vegetarians possess practical that we call of naturalists, that is, that they go against the traditional medicine. The physical activity is characterized by the practical alternatives and a junction between the body, the spirit and the environment can characterize the vegetarian. Studies that relate feeding and body image bring interesting and innovative questionings for the professionals of physical education. / Mestre

Thesis (Masters) -- The College of Saint Elizabeth, 2010. / Typescript. Available at The College of Saint Elizabeth - Office of Graduate Programs. "March 2010"

This thesis is an exploration of popular media texts that influence veganism, with either explicit representations or implicit messages that implicate vegans. Research focuses on the question: How does the gendering of food in popular media texts implicate veganism? Theories used include a combination of cultural, film, and feminist studies, including Stuart Hall’s audience reception, Laura Mulvey's male gaze, R.W. Connell’s hegemonic masculinity, Carol Adams' feminist-vegetarian critical theory, and Rebecca Swenson's critical television studies. A print and television advertisement analysis demonstrates the gendering of food, and subject-object relationship of meat, women, and men. A film analysis of texts with vegan characters and horror film texts with implicit vegan and feminist messaging follows, thus revealing interesting trends and developments in the characterization of vegans on films, and hidden messages in the horror films studied. Lastly, an examination of competitive and instructional cooking shows ends the analysis, with interesting challenges to hegemony present in these television texts. The thesis concludes with examples of modem media feminizing veganism through food associations, the problematic imagery of women and meat as fetishized objects, along with challenges to hegemony that exist in some explicitly vegan texts. / Includes bibliography. / Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2014. / FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection

In the 1970s and 1980s, Sweden held about 15-20 certified health resorts that wanted to improve peoples’ health with vegetarian food and alternative medicine. This essay aims to explore the popularity of health resorts through a patient’s perspective. What did the patients look for at the resort, which they could not find in the official health care? A basis for the analysis is Bonnie Blair O´Connor’s theory of Health Belief Systems. In short, it claims that all medical systems are equal, from a patient’s point of view. A patient in the 1970s and 1980s could turn to the Health Belief System of conventional medicine, or chose an alternative – for example the Health Belief System constituted by Swedish health resorts. The material for this survey comes from one of the most famous health resorts in Sweden, Föllingegården in the north of Jämtland. From 1976 to 1990 Mrs Lilly Johansson, who advocated a very strictly vegetarian diet to people with various health problems, ran the resort. The archives of Föllingegården have recently been discovered, and this is the first time someone looks at the patients’ bookings, journals and letters. The survey reveals that about three quarters of the patients were women, that the average patient was about 50 years old, and that he or she was most likely to be a white-collar worker. About half of the patients were explicitly ill, and suffered from different kinds of aches, rheumatism, allergies, eczema, bowel problems or other chronic disease. In their anamnesis, and in evaluation forms concerning their stay at Föllingegården, the patients reveal their motifs for coming to the health resort. Many of them had been let down by conventional health care. They were tired of heavy medication and/or careless doctors. At the health resort, they searched for a more personal contact with their healer and a more natural way of curing diseases and improve health. This essay shows that patients in the 1970s and 1980s contributed to the popularity of health resorts by trusting the health resorts with a wide range of health problems, by persuading doctors of the official health care to refer to and finance their stay at the health resort, and by taking responsibility for their own health in an era when official health care started to prove insufficient.

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Previous psychological research on vegetarianism has focused primarily on participants' health and weight concerns, and the process by which people adopt a vegetarian diet. The present studies broaden this research by exploring the differences in the way omnivores and vegetarians perceive animals and people whose diets do or do not include meat. In Study 1, participants reported their willingness to eat a series of animal- and vegetable-sourced foods, as well as their perceptions of the animals’ qualities. In Study 2, participants reported their impressions of a hypothetical student’s character and personality, basing their inferences on a short profile that indicated the student’s dietary choices as either omnivorous or vegetarian. Our findings in Study 1 suggest that the decision to eat or not eat animals is chiefly a function of disgust at the thought of eating them and how often one has seen them for sale in a store, but also affected by such diverse factors as perceptions of their intelligence, capacity for pain and suffering, appearance, and similarity to humans. In Study 2, both omnivores and vegetarians rated the vegetarian student targets as more virtuous and ethical than the omnivorous student targets.

Previous psychological research on vegetarianism has focused primarily on participants' health and weight concerns, and the process by which people adopt a vegetarian diet. The present studies broaden this research by exploring the differences in the way omnivores and vegetarians perceive animals and people whose diets do or do not include meat. In Study 1, participants reported their willingness to eat a series of animal- and vegetable-sourced foods, as well as their perceptions of the animals’ qualities. In Study 2, participants reported their impressions of a hypothetical student’s character and personality, basing their inferences on a short profile that indicated the student’s dietary choices as either omnivorous or vegetarian. Our findings in Study 1 suggest that the decision to eat or not eat animals is chiefly a function of disgust at the thought of eating them and how often one has seen them for sale in a store, but also affected by such diverse factors as perceptions of their intelligence, capacity for pain and suffering, appearance, and similarity to humans. In Study 2, both omnivores and vegetarians rated the vegetarian student targets as more virtuous and ethical than the omnivorous student targets.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, Dept. of Public Health, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 327-346). Also available in an electronic version via the Internet.

Thesis (M.A.) - Carleton University, 2002. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 102-107). Also available in electronic format on the Internet.