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A Study of the Use of the Friendship Pattern in Nutrition Education
A Study of the Use of the Friendship Pattern in Nutrition Education
Pages 74-81
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* An experiment undertaken by the Department of Public Health and Preventative Medicine of Cornell University Medical School in the Kipps-Bay Yorkville Area of New York City, with a grant from the Committee on Food Habits, National Research Council.
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Lyle purpose of this luncheon was twofold: it was obviously bait to attract women into the group but it had ~ folkway similarity in that it appealed to the "breaking bread witl: friends" idea current among this group. Its second purpose was to interest the women in nutrition and to make them a continuing unit in that interest.
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It was our impression that this reason originated more from the concept of the role of the woman in the low income home than from actual pressure of housework. This was substantiated in part by the fact that these women appeared to experience little difficulty in shelving home duties when more interesting activities were available.
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FIGURE II. Relationship of Irish Friendship Pattern to established organization in the community.
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This pattern of isolating or Nixing nationalities In the friendship patterns has its chief significance in the idiomatic food patterns, which are discussed in a later section. IDIOM ATIC FOOD PATTERNS AMONG NATIONALITIES The nationalities comprising the population of Lois section of New York City are intermingled.
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FACTORS INFLUENCING THE FAMILY S NUTRITION PATTERN The nutrition patterns of the families studied appear to be influenced by two sets of factors those inherited from the past and those operative in the environment. The relative weights of the two vary from family to family and from nationality to nationality but a few are found consistently.
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The fact that friendship patterns operate for the most part within the confines of existing organizations suggests that strong local organizations
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The wide variety of foods available to the low income family, the interdigitation of nationalities, and the pressure of American institutions on the family through the children and through industrial and social contacts, have all tended to weaken the idiomatic food patterns. The psychological value gained frown the use of certain foods and in particular ways is greater than are the benefits from the usual nutrition course.
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