Food Fight! The Swedish Low-Carb/High Fat (LCHF) Movement and the Turning of Science Popularisation Against the Scientists

Gunnarsson, Andreas; Elam, Mark

doi:10.1080/09505431.2011.632000

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“…Nowadays a variety of diet regimes are discussed. Gunnarsson and Elam (2012), for example, discuss the "food fight" between the LCHF (Low Carb High Fat) movement and the established dietary advisors. The nutritional aspects of the meal were almost left out of discussions at the research circle meetings.…”

Section: Making Mealsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The diet stands for losing weight by refraining from carbohydrates whilst continuing to enjoy fat. Gunnarsson and Elam (2012) described from a sociological perspective the ongoing "food fight" between the LCHF movement and established dietary expertise in Sweden. There are two aspects to this: The first is a debunking of the established dietary advice for failing to live up to idealized standards of "sound science."…”

Section: Nutritionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The Complexity of Making a Conscious Meal: A Concept for Development and Education

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Ekström

2015

Journal of Culinary Science & Technology

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The professionals in the commercial catering sector are challenged by a large number of demands in their daily work. The aim of this study is to extend the concept of The Conscious Meal and to develop it, enabling professionals in the catering service to meet needs, demands, and desires in the public and private meal sectors. This study highlights the complexity of making a meal in a commercial context as well as the importance of including ethical reflections in culinary education.

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Section: Making Mealsmentioning

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Section: Nutritionmentioning

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The Complexity of Making a Conscious Meal: A Concept for Development and Education

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Jonsson

Ekström

2015

Journal of Culinary Science & Technology

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“…Instead, they look nostalgically back to an ill‐defined pre‐agricultural ‘paleolithic’ hunter‐gatherer era, where humans thrived on diets high in animal protein and fats (Knight , ). They mobilise the rhetorics and authority of science to articulate an angry critique of conventional high‐carbohydrate, low‐fat nutritional advice, which they hold as culpable for rising obesity rates and its presumed health consequences (Gunnarsson and Elam , Jauho ).…”

Section: Giving Up Sugarmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…These appeals operate not as a critique of science per se, but of what they see as a corrupt and flawed science‐in‐practice, subject to the corruptive influences and desires of politics and big business. In their study of the Swedish LCHF movement, Gunnarsson and Elam (: 319) describe advocates as ‘inventive popularisers of science’ who have ‘succeeded to some degree in turning a conventional tool of incumbent scientific authority into a weapon to be turned back against this authority’. As Jauho () observes in his study of low‐carb dieters’ narratives of science, these are invitations to a social construction of competence – discursive moves which not only legitimate a dissenting position, but also construct an identity through the appropriation of the symbolic cultural capital afforded by the command of the scientific idiom.…”

Section: Giving Up Sugarmentioning

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Giving up sugar and the inequalities of abstinence

Throsby

2018

Sociology Health & Illness

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Sugar is increasingly supplanting fat as public enemy number one in public health campaigns, and calls for significant reductions in consumption have provided fertile ground for the proliferation of popular texts and services advocating sugar abstention. This article explores three modes of popular sugar abstention (evangelical, experimental and charitable). These vary in chronology, philosophy and the intensity of abstention, but all serve as sites of identity production and self-entrepreneurship for those able to advocate for, and engage with, them. The article argues that these abstention narratives are not only premised on the exercise of social privilege, but that they also necessarily reproduce and sediment those social hierarchies. This is achieved through a combination of nutritionism and healthism, dislocating sugar and its consumption from the vast social, economic and environmental inequalities within which both the consumption of sugar, and the act of giving it up, is made meaningful. (A virtual abstract of this paper can be found at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_979cmCmR9rLrKuD7z0ycA).

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“…(Huhta, 2013. ) Samanlaisia tuloksia on nähtävissä myös karppauksen tutkimuksessa Ruotsissa (Gunnarsson & Elam, 2012). Ruotsalainen karppausliike on onnistunut tehokkaasti puhuttelemaan yleisöä Vanhasta tieteen ja toimittajien kontrolloimasta julkisuudesta on siirrytty monisuuntaiseen viestintään, jossa itse kullakin henkilöllä on mahdollisuus saattaa viestinsä olemattomilla kustannuksilla lähes koko ihmiskunnan saataville.…”

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Tämä kirja vastaa tarpeeseen yhdistää viestinnän uusinta tutkimustietoa käytännön viestinnän suunnitteluun. Sen kirjoittajat ovat alojensa johtavia tutkijoita ja opettajia Suomessa, ja heitä kaikkia yhdistää kysymys: miten tehdä organisaatioistamme alati muuttuvassa ympäristössä kestäviä? Millaisella viestinnällä teemme organisaatioistamme särkymättömiä? Kirjan ensimmäisessä artikkelissa avaan särkymättömän viestinnän ajatusta tarkemmin. Kun ympäristö organisaatioidemme ympärillä muuttuu vauhdilla, muuttuvat myös eri sidosryhmien ja asiakkaiden odotukset siitä, miten organisaatioiden tulisi viestiä ja toimia. Kirjan toisessa artikkelissa Laura Olkkonen kirjoittaa, että sidosryhmien odotukset voivat olla joko positiivisia tai negatiivisia, mutta organisaation maine rakentuu aina odotuksien päälle. Petetyt odotukset saavat sidosryhmien tunteet pintaan, ja kirjan kolmannessa artikkelissa Salla-Maaria Laaksonen avaa, miten tunteet vaikuttavat tiedostamattomasti kaiken tiedonkäsittelymme taustalla. Negatiiviset tunteet ovat uskottavampia kuin positiiviset, ja siksi esimerkiksi sidosryhmien omilla kokemuksilla organisaatioista on suuri vaikutus. Kysymykset vaikuttamisesta sekä oikeasta ja väärästä saavat uusia merkityksiä, ja kirjan neljännessä kappaleessa Henri Rydenfelt esittelee eettistä ennakointia organisaatioille.

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Food Fight! The Swedish Low-Carb/High Fat (LCHF) Movement and the Turning of Science Popularisation Against the Scientists

Cited by 43 publications

References 19 publications

The Complexity of Making a Conscious Meal: A Concept for Development and Education

The Complexity of Making a Conscious Meal: A Concept for Development and Education

Giving up sugar and the inequalities of abstinence

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