Restricted pleasure for healthy eating and food well-being
The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship of dietary restriction and food well-being (FWB) in an under-researched population using a novel but growing approach to transition to healthier eating patterns.
This study uses individual interviews of African-American participants in a food detoxification program, a specific form of food restriction used to transition to healthier eating.
Results identify how food socialization and food literacy enable individuals to transform their relationship with food and enhance their FWB. Unlike prior research that focuses on food as the source of pleasure, this study finds that food is deployed as fuel, and this transition results in pleasure.
This research explains how a voluntary transition to healthier eating enables people to pursue FWB and extends the understanding of FWB (
Keywords: Detoxification programmes; Diet; Food literacy; Food restriction; Food socialization; Food well-being; Health eating; Healthy eating; Raw foods
Document Type: Research Article
Affiliations: 1: Marketing Department, Paul Merage School of Business, University of California, Irvine, California, USA 2: Marketing Department, Kogod School of Business, American University, Washington, DC, USA
Publication date: 09 September 2019
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