Healthy lifestyles: social practice of eating habits

Abstract

Lifestyles, considered patterns of behavior influence the health of the population, and eating habits one of its components. The habitus in the form of durable arrangements is built on the basis of the culture matched with a certain type of knowledge, ideas, values, skills, among others. The common conditions that characterize some social practices such as the eating habits generated by the habitus are consequently the healthy lifestyles, priority in "The promotion of health" contemplated in the Ottawa Charter. The points of view of authors such as Pierre Bourdieu and Michael Foucault are explored, who contribute significantly to displaying sentiments of how, through experience and practices, modes and lifestyles are particularly important for health. This document aims to describe some considerations that highlight the importance of healthy lifestyles as social processes that favor public health, especially those related to the social practice of eating habits.