Infantile feeding and the food industry marketing. Brazil, 1960-1988

Authors

  • Suely Teresinha Schmidt Passos de Amorim

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5380/his.v42i0.4638

Keywords:

alimentação infantil, marketing, discurso médico, infant feeding, medical discourse

Abstract

The present work aims at investigating infants eating habits from 1960 to 1988, in Brazil, through an analysis that focuses on commercial advertisements published in wide circulation women magazines in Brazil. It consists of an interdisciplinary study, in the area of Food History. The methodology adopted centered on the discourse analysis in advertising messages and pictures of childrens food. This study assumes the premise that the food industry marketing fostered the dissemination of artificial suckling, using dried milk, depriving infants from breast feeding, and, at the same time, allowing for the emergence of other supplementary products that favored early weaning.

How to Cite

de Amorim, S. T. S. P. (2005). Infantile feeding and the food industry marketing. Brazil, 1960-1988. História: Questões E Debates, 42(1). https://doi.org/10.5380/his.v42i0.4638

Issue

Section

Dossiê: História da Alimentação