Obesity: An Ideological and Discursive Analysis

The importance of discourse for society is enormous since they fall into communicative processes which, through reflections, use the elaboration of ideas that appear in the collective imagination, since socio-political and economic conditions dictate the schemes by which the discourse generates processes of meaning, interpretation and reproduction of everyday life. With this approach we can observe that aspects of national interest such as education and health, for example, are crossed by the way in which phenomena in these fields are explained, described or problematized. The objective is to make an analysis on the influence of discourse for the perpetuity of obesity, to account for how groups console and support obesity and to understand the impact that obesity generates on the subject itself, from generic aspects such as aesthetics, identity and belonging and specifics such as health and nutrition. To understand why Obesity is an important phenomenon, it is necessary to highlight the fact that it is not only a medical aspect, Torres and Rojas [1] assure “Although overweight and obesity impact people, it also has consequences on development. economic and human capital of countries, mainly low-income, ranging from productivity to the costs generated by its treatment. "From the social point of view, it is significant to denote the impact that the groups generate on the subject since they insert discourses of" tolerant hedonism ", since for this the practice of any habit is allowed for the benefit of pleasures, obesity discursively it could be part of a pressure to satisfy oneself voraciously, since everyone's dream is to be without prejudice. Obesity is undoubtedly not only a behavior that uncovers the passions for food, it is the duty of health professionals to find the causes even when they are not properly medical.