45 research outputs found
"I wouldn't delve into it too much": public concerns (or not) about the UK food supply system
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Revisiting 'eating out':understanding 20 years of change in the practice in three English cities
No full textIn 2015 and 2016 we took what is a rare opportunity in the social sciences to revisit the study Eating Out, which was first conducted in 1995 by Warde and Martens. This study explored, from the point of view of diners, the increasingly popular practice of eating main meals in commercial establishments. To explore changes and continuities in such a practice over time, we take instruction from the technique of what Burawoy calls the ‘focused revisit’. This involves revisiting sites studied at an earlier time, but is distinguishable from a re-analysis or the updating of previous studies. The purpose of a revisit is to understand and explain variation in what is observed without being enslaved by the rules that govern ‘replicable’ research. By applying principles of an ethnographic revisit to a mixed method study of ‘eating out’ and ‘eating in’, we were able to re-engage with the topics and literatures arising (e.g. sustainable consumption, eating out as a practice), rather than solely updating the 1995 analysis with the same purposes in mind. This chapter explores the logic of revisiting Eating Out and reflects upon the prospects and challenges afforded by this exciting opportunity. Taking instruction from Glucksmann’s approach, we ‘open up’ the research process and discuss the ‘in between’ stage, between data collection and presentation of findings, to share a number of concrete examples of the challenges of a sociological revisit
Vegetarianism in the UK
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Healthy Eating, Social Class and Ethnicity: Exploring the Food Practices of South Asian Mothers
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Revisiting 'eating out':understanding 20 years of change in the practice in three English cities
No full text'We need to survive' : integrating social enterprises within community food initiatives
No full textIn this chapter we examine the impacts of social enterprise on individual and community health and well-being. We focus on community food initiatives and explore how longstanding non-profit models in the community food sector are integrating profit bearing social enterprise within their structures. We consider the impact of these changes on the social determinants of health and the influence of structure on health outcomes. This study uses an interpretive qualitative approach working with two community food social enterprises. Our findings demonstrate that community food initiatives have become more thoughtful and wide ranging in the types of interventions which they offer. They have transformed themselves into complex organisations encompassing an ever-growing range of initiatives. Despite the current climate, where there is considerable support for social enterprise, findings show a reluctance among these initiatives to be aligned to the social enterprise vision. Their strongly charitable origins means that their skills and networks are more closely aligned to charitable models. Findings show support for impact at the individual, social and community layers of the social determinants of health model; however, there is less evidence of impact beyond this into living conditions or socioeconomic, cultural and environmental conditions
A compilation of energy costs of physical activities.
No full textOBJECTIVES: There were two objectives: first, to review the existing data on energy costs of specified activities in the light of the recommendations made by the Joint Food and Agriculture Organization/World Health Organization/United Nations University (FAO/WHO/UNU) Expert Consultation of 1985. Second, to compile existing data on the energy costs of physical activities for an updated annexure of the current Expert Consultation on Energy and Protein Requirements. DESIGN: Electronic and manual search of the literature (predominantly English) to obtain published data on the energy costs of physical activities. The majority of the data prior to 1955 were obtained using an earlier compilation of Passmore and Durnin. Energy costs were expressed as physical activity ratio (PAR); the energy cost of the activity divided by either the measured or predicted basal metabolic rate (BMR). RESULTS: The compilation provides PARs for an expanded range of activities that include general personal activities, transport, domestic chores, occupational activities, sports and other recreational activities for men and women, separately, where available. The present compilation is largely in agreement with the 1985 compilation, for activities that are common to both compilations. CONCLUSIONS: The present compilation has been based on the need to provide data on adults for a wide spectrum of human activity. There are, however, lacunae in the available data for many activities, between genders, across age groups and in various physiological states
