Language, Gender and Healthy Eating

[Amy Sheldon]

Another angle on this:
I have an assignment in my Language & Gender class called "Repairing the
World".  Responding to an item such as the juicer info would be a way to
do this assignment. It also requires the student to do some analysis about
what's "wrong' with the world wrt the matter that they are repairing.

Amy Sheldon

On Wed, 6 Apr 2005, Jane wrote:

> And it raises the question of whether IGALA could usefully play a role
> as a pressure group in response to this sort of thing.
>
> Jane Sunderland
>
>
> Jane Sunderland
> Director of Studies, PhD in Applied Linguistics by Thesis and Coursework
> and New Route PhD
> Dept. of Linguistics and English Language
> Lancaster University
> Lancs. LA1 4YT
>
> j.sunderland at lancs.ac.uk
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: International Gender and Language Association
> [mailto:GALA-L at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Valentina Pagliai
> Sent: 06 April 2005 21:48
> To: GALA-L at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG
> Subject: Re: Language, Gender and Healthy Eating
>
>
> Wonderful example to use in my class when on language and gender,
> thanks! As to what to do, I am not sure. What about a website dedicated
> to these kinds of stereotypes?
>
> Valentina Pagliai
> Oberlin College
>
> On Apr 6, 2005, at 4:39 PM, Lucy Horder wrote:
>
>
>
> Dear List members,
>
> Recently, I decided to buy a juicer. According to the literature,
> juicers are a great way to fit in your RDA of 5 portions of fruit and
> veg if you're like me and don't really enjoy eating fruit.
>
> The juicer I ended up buying included a leaflet that gave some tips on
> healthy eating, as well as a few recipes and ideas. I was stunned by the
> inclusion of the following paragraphs in this guidance:
>
> "The average woman - say someone who weighs 10 and a half stone - uses
> in an average day around 2000-2200 calories. Of those calories,
> 1400-1500 will be burned by her body performing its everyday bodily
> activities - heart pumping, tissue renewing, general maintenance and
> functions.
>
> A mere 600-700 calories will be burned by her preparing and taking the
> children to school, going to work all day, cooking tea for her children
> and dinner for her husband, followed by perhaps an hours ironing!"
>
> No mention is made, incidentally, of men who might wish to eat more
> healthily, and the kinds of activities that they might engage in to help
> them burn off calories (although perhaps that's for the best...)
>
> I have written to the manufacturers and protest heavily at the inclusion
> of this statement in their leaflet, but, unsurprisingly, have not yet
> had a reply. I'd be interested to hear some comments from you all if you
> are as alarmed by this whole episode as I am.
>
> Yours (fuming),
>
> Lucy
>
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