Abstract

ALMEIDA VERA, Lourdes; ALMEIDA VERA, Luís  and  GARCIA HECHAVARRIA, Romelia. Sociological bases of the process of alimentary hybridization in adolescents. MEDISAN [online]. 2014, vol.18, n.9, pp. 1306-1315. ISSN 1029-3019.

In this work, the risk factors associated with overweight in adolescents are supported, with emphasis in the process of alimentary hybridization. Also, it is analyzed and it is meditated on the existent relationship between health and society; decisive factors of the health in the society. Different approaches assumed by sociologists and sanitary professionals that favour the appropriation of a logic in the scientific thought, are defined, contributing to a classification of the alimentary practices which characterize the hybridization processes in Ecuadorian adolescents, starting from the postulates of the health sociology

Keywords : alimentary hybridization; alimentary culture; sociology; adolescence; Ecuador.

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