Food production and eating habits from around the world : a multidisciplinary approach

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by  Entrena Durán

NUTRITION AND DIET RESEARCH PROGRESS

F P E
OOD RODUCTION AND ATING
H F A W
ABITS ROM ROUND THE ORLD

A MULTIDISCIPLINARY APPROACH

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NUTRITION AND DIET RESEARCH PROGRESS

F P E
OOD RODUCTION AND ATING
H F A W
ABITS ROM ROUND THE ORLD
A MULTIDISCIPLINARY APPROACH

FRANCISCO ENTRENA-DURAN
EDITOR

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CONTENTS

Preface Globalization as the Context to Understand Changes in Food
Production and Eating Habits vii
Francisco Entrena-Duran
PART I. FOOD PRODUCTION 1
Chapter 1 Deagrarianization, the Growth of the Food Industry,
and the Construction of New Ruralities 3
Francisco Entrena-Duran
Chapter 2 Expansion of Greenhouse Farming in the Area of El Ejido:
A Case Study on the Environmental and Social Consequences
of Agroindustry in Southeast Spain 29
Francisco Entrena-Duran
Chapter 3 Effects of Pesticides on Cambodia Farming and Food Production:
Alternatives to Regulatory Policies 45
Jose Manuel Ramos-Sanchez
PART II. EATING HABITS, PHYSICAL ACTIVITY, BODY, AND HEALTH 57
Chapter 4 The Impact of Physical Activity and Psychological Factors
on Eating Habits 59
Patricia Mawusi Amos, Freda Dzifa Intiful, Theresa Antwi
and Matilda Asante
Chapter 5 Strategies for the Care of Obese:
A Non-Prescriptive Nutritional Perspective 73
Mariana Dimitrov Ulian, Bruno Gualano,
Fabiana Braga Benatti, Odilon Jose Roble,
Patricia Lopes de Campos-Ferraz,
Ramiro Fernandez Unsain, Priscila de Morais Sato
and Fernanda Baeza Scagliusi
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Chapter 6 Body Cult in Contemporary Societies:
Sport, Self-Image And Health 89
Juan Miguel Valdera-Gil and Francisco Javier Valdera-Gil
Chapter 7 Eating Habits, Falls and Stroke Risk 103
Bajram Kamberi and Gojart Kamberi
PART III. ADVERTISING AND DISCOURSES ON FOOD 119
Chapter 8 Between Health and Beauty: Food Advertised as Medication 121
Juan Rey
Chapter 9 Health as a Hook in Food Advertising 135
Cristina Gonzalez-Diaz and Mar Iglesias-Garcia
Chapter 10 Food, Marketing and Culture:
Discourses of Food Advertising in Spain 153
Mabel Gracia-Arnaiz
PART IV. CHILDREN'S EATING HABITS 181
Chapter 11 Identifying Eating Habits in Multicultural Schools
through Focus Groups with Children 183
Angeles Merino-Godoy and Soledad Palacios-Galvez
Chapter 12 Insights into Children's Lunchboxes: Understanding the Issues
Impacting The Selection of Contents by Australian Parents 193
Renata Anibaldi, Sharyn Rundle-Thiele, Francisco Crespo-Casado
and Julia Carins
PART V. CHANGES IN EATING HABITS 209
Chapter 13 Changing Urban Food Consumption Patterns in the Context
of Globalization: The Case of India 211
Swarna Sadasivam Vepa and Getsie David
Chapter 14 Social Changes and Transformations in Eating Habits 229
Francisco Entrena-Duran and Jose Francisco Jimenez-Diaz
Index 243
PREFACE

GLOBALIZATION AS THE CONTEXT TO UNDERSTAND
CHANGES IN FOOD PRODUCTION AND
EATING HABITS

Francisco Entrena-Duran*
University of Granada, Spain

The book presented here brings together a selection of studies written by authors from
universities and/or research institutions from every continent. The processes of change in
systems of production, commercialization, and consumption of food, as well as the problems
and nutritional habits analyzed here, develop within the framework of the technological and
socio-productive transformations experienced in many parts of the world as a consequence of
the transition from traditional rural societies to the predominantly urban and industrial
societies of our time. Many of these societies are affected by the fluctuations, questions, or
socioeconomic uncertainties caused principally by what is called globalization, a rather
complex phenomenon whose precise genesis, implications, and definition will not be
analyzed in detail in this introductory chapter.
Globalization has become widespread and seen considerable intensification since the last
two decades of the twentieth century, especially since the 1990s, after the end of the period of
the Cold War. Nevertheless, the manifestations of globalization date back much further to the
extent that both the Spanish colonization of America from the fifteenth century and the
colonizations carried out since the nineteenth century by Germany, France, and England may
be characterized as different forms of globalization.
These forms of globalization revealed themselves above all as processes of expansion of
the norms of European and/or Western societies throughout the rest of the world, that is, as
processes of Westernization. However, it is also true that European and/or Western societies
themselves began to be modified since the beginning of these processes as a result of their
effects. In this regard, our analysis coincides with that of Eric R. Wolf, who, in his work
Europe and the people without history (1983), shows us that the great transformations that

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occurred in the Western world in the last six centuries can be better explained if, in addition
to considering endogenous factors contributing to them, they are related to the changes
occurring for the diverse peoples of the world who were the objects of conquest and
colonization by a number of European countries. In accordance with this, rather than focusing
his attention on the classical interpretation that presents the English industrial revolution as
the fundamental factor for the transition to modern European and/or Western urban/industrial
capitalist society, Wolf attempts to explain this transition by analyzing the expansion of
English textile production, very much decisive in this revolution, in conjunction with the
production of cotton in South America and Egypt and the evolution of textile production in
India.
Specifically, with regard to the object of study of this book, it must be emphasized that
the influence of the colonized peoples on the West was also manifested with particular
intensity in the area of food. Thus, one of the most important consequences of the discovery
of America was the introduction (in some cases, almost instantaneously, and in others, more
slowly) of agrarian products coming from the Americas, which made possible a true food
revolution (and also a gastronomic one) in the Old World. In this way, products such as
potatoes, corn, cocoa, squash, yams, beans, and tomatoes became basic or determinant (even
strategic) foods in most diets, first in Europe and later in Africa, Asia, and Oceania.
In the opposite direction, from Europe and later from Africa and Asia, the colonizers
brought to America other products, unknown there, which also gave rise to important dietary
and gastronomic changes. Among these products were barley, rice, cane sugar, plantains,
coffee, oranges, lemons, and olive oil.
The above-mentioned bidirectional flows of food products between the New World and
the Old World show that, in spite of being manifested for centuries predominantly as
Westernization, globalization since its earliest phases was also manifest in the influences that
the rest of the world exercised on the West, although it was not until the end of the Cold War
when a new form of globalization began to appear in all its plenitude, no longer characterized
by the influence or predominant centrality of the states of the advanced modern European
and/or Western societies. Thus, both these states and their respective societies are seeing a
gradual reduction of their classic paradigmatic referentiality (in socio-economic, politico-
institutional, or symbolic-cultural terms) at the same time that they are entering more or less
deep socio-economic crises, together with an incessant displacement of planetary economic
hegemony toward new emergent countries from Latin America or Asia, such as Brazil, China,
and India.
In these circumstances, as the strong connection between the state and national markets
typical of earlier periods in which state-centric models predominated began to crumble,
persistent crises, socio-economic volatility, and uncertainty, as well as continuing
technological advances and social changes experienced by our agitated world of today (ever
more interconnected on the planetary scale) make possible an intense and accelerated
circulation, in all global directions, of people, ideas, and commodities. This increasingly
complex situation makes it difficult to clearly differentiate between what were traditionally
considered to be societies from the center (that is, European and/or Western) and peripheral
or semi-peripheral societies with respect to levels of development of the welfare state and
socioeconomic stability (Wallerstein, 1984).
As a consequence of the high level of world interconnection existing today, it can be
stated that for the first time in human history, practically all societies and countries of the