Search for dissertations about: "Kostvetenskap"
Showing result 6 - 10 of 36 swedish dissertations containing the word Kostvetenskap.
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6. The evaluation process of nutrition interventions for patients at risk of malnutrition : From a person-centred perspective
Abstract : This thesis is aimed at exploring the process of evaluating nutrition interventions for patients at risk of malnutrition from a person-centred perspective. An explorative cross-sectional study was conducted based on data from the International Nutrition Care Process and Terminology Implementation Survey (INIS). READ MORE
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7. Negotiating healthy eating : Lay, stakeholder and government constructions of official dietary guidance in Sweden
Abstract : This thesis approaches dietary guidance as socio-culturally produced and comprised in a specific historical context. The work is premised on the position that ideas and understandings of healthy eating are discursively constructed, and that we form our understandings of the world, ourselves and others through discourse. READ MORE
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8. "We're made of meat, so why should we eat vegetables?" : food discourses in the school subject home and consumer studies
Abstract : Background: Food has many different functions. On a physical level, it is needed to survive and to maintain health, but it also has many social, psychological, and emotional meanings. For example, food is used to build relationships, to mark hierarchies, to celebrate holidays, and to influence mood and self-image. READ MORE
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9. Contested Food : The Construction of Home and Consumer Studies as a Cultural Space
Abstract : Education about and for the home has been part of the Swedish education system for over one hundred years, and Home and Consumer Studies (HCS) has been compulsory for all pupils since the common nine-year school system was introduced in 1962. For all this time food has been a central theme, however we know very little of what food means in this context. READ MORE
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10. Is it the gluten-free diet that matters the most? : Food, gender and celiac disease
Abstract : Background: The only treatment for celiac disease consists of excluding gluten. Gluten is a protein complex found in wheat, rye, and barley, which are cereals commonly used in bread, pasta, pizza, etc. READ MORE