2007
DOI: 10.1002/ajhb.20674
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Cultural consonance and adult body composition in urban Brazil

Abstract: In previous research in Brazil, we found socioeconomic and gender differences in body mass and percent body fat, consistent with a model in which individuals in higher socioeconomic strata, especially women, could achieve a cultural ideal of body size and shape. In this article, using new data, we examine these processes more precisely using measures of cultural consonance. Cultural consonance refers to the degree to which individuals approximate, in their own beliefs and behaviors, the shared prototypes for b… Show more

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“…Words selected by individuals to talk about their everyday activities possess ecological validity within their culture, according to anthropological principles (Wittgenstein, 1953;Romney, Weller & Batchelder, 1986;Dressler, Oths, Ribeiro et al, 2008). Salient features of any enacted behaviour are manifested as particular words used by the person to describe that event (Maguire & Dove, 2008).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Words selected by individuals to talk about their everyday activities possess ecological validity within their culture, according to anthropological principles (Wittgenstein, 1953;Romney, Weller & Batchelder, 1986;Dressler, Oths, Ribeiro et al, 2008). Salient features of any enacted behaviour are manifested as particular words used by the person to describe that event (Maguire & Dove, 2008).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Dado que en la zona urbana de Brasil y Colombia está ocurriendo un aumento de peso particularmente rápido entre mujeres de bajo nivel socioeconómico (NSE) (Dressler et al, 2008;Kasper et al, 2014;Monteiro et al, 2000;Olszowy et al, 2012) es razonable asumir que la disponibilidad y consumo de alimentos puede variar según Población y Salud en Mesoamérica Doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.15517/psm.v13i2.22165 Volumen 13, número 2, artículo 8, enero-julio, 2016…”
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“…Es decir, que personas culturalmente «consonantes» en un dominio tendían a ser igualmente «consonantes» en otros dominios, de lo que se infería la existencia de una consonancia cultural «generalizada». Igualmente quedó de manifiesto la correspondencia entre una baja consonancia cultural generalizada y un mayor índice de masa corporal, teniendo en cuenta la ingesta total de calorías y grasas, y la actividad física (Dressler, Oths, Ribeiro et al 2008;Dressler, Oths, Balieiro et al 2012). Por último, se recogieron datos sobre un neurotransmisor, un polimorfismo de nucleótido simple en el receptor de tipo 2A para la serotonina.…”
Section: Salud Y Consonancia Culturalunclassified