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RICHTER, Ana Cristina  e  VAZ, Alexandre Fernadez. On the care of children's bodies in the nursery school feeding routine. Cad. Pesqui. [online]. 2011, vol.41, n.143, pp. 486-501. ISSN 0100-1574.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0100-15742011000200008.

This article touches upon the feeding routine within daycare institutions; the data was collected via an ethnographic approach. The results reveal that feeding times fall within a context in which the body is the primary aspect of disciplinary processes, directed at civilizing and controlling the conduct of each individual based on an over-emphasized, biological impulse of survival to maintain the body's "healthiness". This belief sees the human body as merely a biological instrument of the natural act of consumption.

Palavras-chave : early childhood; nutrition; childhood food.