Le choix alimentaire des Québécois : quand la santé s’invite à table
This Master’s thesis focuses on questions regarding the evolution of Quebecer’s food choice. Our goals are to analyze why and how the food choice of Quebecers evolves and to what extent the food choice of Quebecers is medicalized and healthicized. As part of this dissertation, we chose to conduct fifteen interviews with men and women aged 60 and over. From the thematic analysis of the interviews we conducted, it emerges that the men and women in our sample who speak about health and nutrition generally use medicalized and healthicized discourse. In addition, several factors influence the evolution of the food choice; the most important of which are the family and the state of health. Although the small size of our sample does not allow us to conclude in a general way about the differences between men's and women's discourse, the men interviewed in this research tend to justify their food choices according to their health problems and therefore base their food choices on biomedical concepts. The women in our sample justify their food choices by referring to a wider range of factors such as the environment, agriculture, their family members, health problems and alternative medicine. Thus, their choices are part of a dynamic of medicalization and of healthicization. This distinction suggests an interesting track for further research.
Genre Food choice Medicalization Healthicization Gender Feminity Masculinity