title: [Inequality, poverty and obesity].
abstract: National studies have been demonstrating the positive relationship among inequality, poverty and obesity revealing the singularities and complexity of the nutritional transition in Brazil. In this direction, the women constitute a vulnerable group to the dynamics of the obesity in the poverty context. Such fact imposes the theoretical deepening and the accomplishment of researches that make possible a larger approach with the phenomenon in subject. In this perspective, the study analyzed the daily life of poor and obese women, users of basic units of health of the city of Diamantina, Vale do Jequitinhonha, Minas Gerais State. The results revealed the complex relationship between feminine obesity and poverty. The cultural and material aspects of life, as well as the different feeding and body conceptions that demonstrated to be fundamental elements for the analysis of the multiple faces of the obesity among the investigated group. Facing these results it is appropriate to encourage public policies that promote equity widening the access of those groups to the main resources for the prevention and combat of obesity.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Nutrição, Universidade Federal dos Vales do Jequitinhonha e Mucuri, Diamantina, MG, Brazil. vanessa.nutr@ig.com.br
authors.forename: Vanessa Alves
authors.initials: VA
authors.lastname: Ferreira
authors.forename: Aline Elizabeth
authors.initials: AE
authors.lastname: Silva
authors.forename: Chrystiellen Ayana Aparecida
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Rodrigues
authors.forename: Nádia Lúcia Almeida
authors.initials: NL
authors.lastname: Nunes
authors.forename: Tássia Cassimiro
authors.initials: TC
authors.lastname: Vigato
authors.forename: Rosana
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Magalhães
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004032:Diet; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008019:Life Style; D008875:Middle Aged; D009765:Obesity / Q000453:epidemiology*; D011203:Poverty / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D055815:Young Adult