Language, Gender and Healthy Eating

[Valentina Pagliai]

Do you ask the students to write response letters?  Like, letters to
the juicer's company?

Valentina

On Apr 6, 2005, at 5:44 PM, Amy Sheldon wrote:

> 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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