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0054/2015 - Suffering and prejudice: traversed paths by nutritionists obese in search of weight loss
Sofrimento e preconceito: trajetórias percorridas por nutricionistas obesas em busca do emagrecimento

Author:

• Kênya Lima Araújo - Araújo, Kênya Lima - UFBA, PPGSAT - <kenyanut@yahoo.com.br>

Co-author(s):

• Paulo Gilvane Pena - Pena, Paulo Gilvane - UFBA, FACULDADE DE MEDICINA - <plpena@uol.com.br>
• Maria do Carmo Soares de Freitas - Freitas, M. C. S. - Salvador, - Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA), Ciências da Nutrição - <carmofreitas@uol.com.br>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8310-0933

Thematic Area:

Ciências Sociais

Abstract:

Obesity, public health problem, is seen as "moral panic" that disables the obese social acceptance. For obese nutritionists, the paradox of the premises of her profession and state of morbidity becomes complex debate for the conflict with the professional identity. The study objective was to discuss meanings of health care adopted by obese nutritionists Salvador and understand their experience with obesity in everyday life. The study was a qualitative approach using semi-structured interviews with eight narratives about the experience of being obese dietitian analyzed by hermeneutic. The research revealed the nutritionist for enlarged view both as incompetent in self care and social condition of being overweight stigma that generates. Estrangement of the body, social exclusion, defense strategies in the professional-patient relationship, desperate to distant "miracle" diets of scientific discourse and obese body as a prison appeal are some conditions of suffering unveiled in daily work. We conclude on the need for public health institutions appropriate the scale of the problem and establish strategies for nutrition obese condition, considering that this contradiction occurs in various professions.

Keywords:

Obesity Nutrition Stigma Work Health

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Araújo, Kênya Lima, Pena, Paulo Gilvane, Freitas, M. C. S.. Suffering and prejudice: traversed paths by nutritionists obese in search of weight loss. Cien Saude Colet [periódico na internet] (2015/May). [Citado em 21/01/2025]. Está disponível em: http://cienciaesaudecoletiva.com.br/en/articles/suffering-and-prejudice-traversed-paths-by-nutritionists-obese-in-search-of-weight-loss/15120?id=15120



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