Du côté des adolescents : un rapport complexe et diversifié à l'alimentation

Despite stereotypes about teens and junk food, anthropological research shows a wide variety of eating habits at this age of life, according to different situations, places and commensals. The family meal, the transmission of food habits, and the importance of table manners are still significant, even at the price of concessions and negotiations. The internalization of nutritional and bodily norms, the awareness of the dangers related to “bad eating” and the sense of responsibility in avoiding it, leads to an ambivalent relationship to food and to recurring alternations between transgression and self-control, between pleasure and dietary restrictions.