An approach to religious dietetic prescriptions and their influence in western nutrition

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Kendra Carrión Vivar

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This paper reviews the dietary precepts of the 3 religions of the book so as to evaluate the extent in which they have become central axes of the current conception of healthy nutrition. Through the review of the typifying of gluttony and guilt in Christianity; Judaism obsession with determining which food is good or bad, and the Islamic conception of the value of regulating portions and aligning food with emotions. This work reveals the importance of the stomach in the conception and achievement of virtue, both in adherence to religion and our time. In this sense, we verify how the emphasis placed on caloric control and physical activity (to achieve the skinny ideal of beauty) has religious origins rather than medicals. We conclude that this fixation with thinness occurs within the framework of a capitalist society that requires control amid excess, giving space to increasing eating and mental disorders.

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Carrión Vivar, K. (2020). An approach to religious dietetic prescriptions and their influence in western nutrition. Sosquua, 1(2), 44–64. https://doi.org/10.52948/sosquua.v1i2.132
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Kendra Carrión Vivar, Universidad Iberoamericana

Licenciada en Relaciones Internacionales por el Tecnológico de Monterrey. Maestra en Administración por la ESC-Clermont. Maestra en Relaciones Internacionales por FLACSO Ecuador. Actualmente es doctorante en Ciencias Sociales y Políticas en la Universidad Iberoamericana,Ciudad de México.

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