Author: Christine Dial-Benton Ph. D.
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 1466954248
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 103

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Author: Christine J. Dial-Benton
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Category : African American women
Languages : en
Pages : 92

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Author: Javonna Wallace-Greene
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Category : African American women
Languages : en
Pages : 247

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Obesity as a growing epidemic in the United States occurs in higher rates within Black-American populations. Although 100 million Americans in the United States are considered overweight or obese, Black-American women have the highest prevalence rate of obesity than any other subgroup. Most studies focus on unhealthy eating practices, lack of exercise, sedentary lifestyles, differential access to nutritious food and lack of adequate health care as contributors of obesity in Black-American women. But these studies are narrow in approach, lacking cultural constructions and food habits pertinent to the history and biography of Black-Americans. This dissertation explores Black women's perceptions of black culture, food habits, body image and obesity in Columbia, Missouri. This dissertation is theoretically rooted in the tradition of symbolic interaction, which is best suited to explore the culturally derived ritualistic behaviors and traditions within Black Culture. By investigating food habits and cooking practices as symbolic manifestations, direct associations to the development of self, identity and in-group ethnic affiliation emerges. This research uses narratives from 15 in-depth interviews, compiled over a two year period. Results indicate black women's perceptions of self, identity, food habits, and body image was socio-cultural constructions. When holistically viewed, insights provided rich interpretations of one's life experiences and interactions within the groups' cultural milieu.

Author: Nozella Lee Brown
Publisher:
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Languages : en
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Nutrition educators traditionally rely on quantitative research to design interventions for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) audiences, such a low-income African American mothers. Such studies indicated the dietary behaviors of this population related to increased risk for chronic disease. Few studies explored the factors that potentially influenced the perceived self-efficacy and affected the dietary habits of SNAP learners. This study addressed the gap between quantitative research findings about the dietary habits of low-income African American mothers and their perceptions of factors influencing those behaviors. A qualitative bounded multi-site case study design was used to explore factors theoretically linked to social cognitive theory (SCT) that affected the dietary habits of low-income African American mothers. The theoretical framework rested on the interaction between SCT and critical race theory (CRT). The research sample included fifteen women, five from each of three public housing sites. The research design included semi-structured interviews supported by multiple data sources. A pilot study took place. Constant comparison was the technique used to analyze the semi-structured interviews and code the findings. The emergent themes aligned with the theoretical framework to answer the research questions. Triangulation helped to ensure the study's quality. The findings supported the SCT premise that behavioral, personal, and environmental factors interacted reciprocally to influence dietary habits. The findings supported the CRT tenets that race, history, narratives, and interest convergence mattered and influenced dietary habits. The results had implications for adult educators designing effective nutrition programs for diverse learners.

Author: Uchenna Agbim
Publisher:
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Category : African American women
Languages : en
Pages : 58

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Author: Moritz Frings
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
ISBN: 3656346887
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 22

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Essay from the year 2012 in the subject American Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: A, University of Brighton, language: English, abstract: Food cultures evolve over time and it is important to analyse cultural and sociological influences, when analysing the development. The roots of the African-American food culture were formed during the slavery in the United States of America. This paper analyses the history of the African-American food culture, as well as the roots of the traditional soul food. Furthermore it aims to analyse whether there is a relationship between historical facts and the obesity, which many African-Americans face today.

Author: Gina Evans
Publisher: VDM Publishing
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Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 140

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African American women develop life threatening health diseases such as hypertension, non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus, coronary heart disease, cardiovascular disease, and obesity at higher rates than Caucasian women. Dietary differences between African American and Caucasian women are one of the most prominent factors attributing to the disparity in health conditions between the two groups. The relationship between psychosocial factors and dietary choices has been explored, but cultural factors have been given much less attention. The purpose of this study was to predict the influence of these psychosocial (food preference and preparation methods, perceived support from family and friends, and attitude toward health) and cultural (acculturation levels) variables on African American women's level of dietary fat intake. An additional purpose of this study was to predict the influence of the psychosocial variables as moderated by acculturation levels, on African American women's level of dietary fat intake.

Author: Patricia Ann Young
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Anne Bower
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252076303
Category : African American cookery
Languages : en
Pages : 202

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Moving beyond catfish and collard greens to the soul of African American cooking

Author: Lena Wilson
Publisher: Nova Science Publishers
ISBN: 9781536185416
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 321

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Healthy Lifestyles and Healthy Eating opens with a study wherein a review is conducted to examine non-Hispanic blacks' dietary patterns to determine the extent to which their dietary patterns conform to dietary recommendations.Next, the authors present conclusions and reflections about the role of motivation-related variables on healthy eating habits among elementary school students.Additionally, student engagement with Google Classroom as an online complementary tool in a hybrid school-based intervention to promote healthy eating among elementary school-aged children is explored and described.Some results of the EATMOT project are presented, including perceptions about healthy eating, sources of information about healthy diet and healthy motivations for food choice.A subsequent study aims to determine the role that eating motives and risk perception of potential diseases may play in adolescents' health-conscious eating behavior.The authors summarize the potential effect of moderate exercise on responsesto stressful situations, as well describe its neurobiological underlying basis in different periods of life.Pharmacy students' attitudes towards dietary supplements use are assessed through a cross-sectional questionnaire survey taken by 117 pharmacy students in the Medical University of Plovdiv, Bulgaria.The growing evidence regarding the influence of gender on the effectiveness of multifactorial interventions to improve lifestyles is assessed. Evidence linking maternal lifestyle to the offspring's long-term clinical outcomes is described, focusing on hypertension and cardiovascular disease risk, as well as discussing the role of epigenetic processes in metabolic syndromes.