What determines the nutritional content of what people eat: Poststructural (lifestyle approach): the responsibility is on the individual

• Self governance by consumers - govern-mentality

• Any unhealthy thing your doing is your responsibility

• Rely heavily on information provision

• Risks like dietary related disease have been individualized and transformed into problems of self care and rational choice

• Has created problematic societal attitudes towards body type and weight

• Discrimination-hiring for example

Marxist (political economy): (would not consider themselves marxists)

• There are actual structural realities caused by our system of production and consumption that prevent people to buy and consume what is best for themselves

• There is a diet that varies by income

• Rich people eat a certain way, poor people eat a certain way

• Relative prices of healthy and unhealthy foods and distribution by income

• Food “deserts”

• When you don’t have access to nutritional foods within a certain radius from your house

• Explanation is about power of firms in production and consumption

• Overproduction of unhealthy foods because of subsidies (corn, corn syrup)

• NAFTA and Mexican maize vs us corn

• Marketing of unhealthy foods