title: [The outside meaning of "eating right" in Mexico].
abstract: This paper uses Mintz's category of outside meaning to present the social, economic and politic context in Mexico in which the concept of "eating right" [alimentación correcta] has been constructed, from the first food-related interventions to the current social food policies. The text is divided in three periods. The first refers to the notion of "normal diet" [dieta normal] and spans from 1930 to 1980. The second is characterized by a focus on individual requirements of vitamins and minerals, going from 1980 until 2000. Finally, the third period goes from 2000 to the present, and corresponds to the concept of a "proper diet" [dieta correcta]. A main conclusion is that the underlying purpose of the food interventions has been to modernize Mexico - according to the different conceptualizations of what it meant to do so predominant in each period - while maintaining and reproducing relationships of power.
authors.affiliation: Licenciada en Nutrición y Ciencia de los Alimentos. Maestra en Antropología. Estudiante del Doctorado en Ciencias en Salud Colectiva, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Xochimilco, México. carmen.suso@yahoo.com.
authors.forename: María Del Carmen Suárez
authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2951-6305
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Solana
mesh_terms: D004032:Diet; D000072001:Diet, Healthy; D005502:Food; D006801:Humans; D008800:Mexico; D011640:Public Policy