36 | nº 29, pp. 19-41 | doxa.comunicación
July-December of 2019
What does the digital press talk about when it talks about nutrition? An analysis of elpais.com...
ISSN: 1696-019X / e-ISSN: 2386-3978
23/02/2017
Eating 800 g of fruit and vegetables a day reduces the risk of premature death by 31%
96
lavanguardia.com
05/01/2017
6 treats you’d never have thought were vegan
133
24/02/2017
Who lives longer, meat eaters or non-meat eaters?
51
19/06/2017
“Diets are useless”
37
06/05/2017
Spain produces 95% of Europe’s transgenic crops
33
07/04/2017
Palm oil faces the music
22
23/04/2017
Spirulina, Goji berries, coconut water... the myth of miracle ingredients
21
25/05/2017
Food that seems healthy but isn’t
20
14/02/2017
Are we omnivores, carnivores or herbivores? Let’s settle the debate
18
11/02/2017
A group of chefs from Girona come up with recipes to help with erectile dysfunction
15
03/02/2017
Chemo, meditation and food awareness: here’s how I beat cancer
14
Source: Compiled by author.
In the case of elpais.com, the text that received the most comments (424) was a first-person report entitled “The unexpected benefits of a million-year-old diet,” written by Tim Spector and Jeff Leach, on a trip to Tanzania to visit the Hazda people, “one of the last hunter-gather groups living in Africa” and study their diet. According to the authors, the Hazda have some of the most diverse microbiota on the planet. It appears that 4 out of the 10 most commented articles are related to vegetarianism or veganism, which would infer that these eating habits cause a stir among the readers of this medium. 8 of these texts are signed, in another the author is an agency and the tenth does not reveal the author.
In the case of lavanguardia.com, the article with the most comments (133) is an unsigned photo-report entitled “6 treats you’d never have thought were vegan”, which, just like in elpais.com corroborates reactions to this eating habit. The second most commented text, “Who lives longer, meat eaters or non-meat eaters?”, also alludes to vegetarian and vegetarian diets. In the case of the Catalan newspaper, two out of the 10 most commented pieces were written by the same author, Albert Molins; while the other 2 are anonymous.
5. Discussion and conclusions
The relevance that the two online newspapers, elpais.com and lavanguardia.com, give to nutrition contents is clear if we consider that out of the 465 and 753 texts published respectively on food, 26% (121) and 22% (186) address this topic. Consequently, in the light of the results obtained in previous studies such as by Fúster et al. (2009) or the SAM reports, it might be stated that nutrition content has been consolidated in the written media.
