ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author describes the human nutrition and dietetics, a profession offering a dynamic, practical and promising career in which she could pursue her two favourite subjects, human biology and home economics. She studies psychology and sociology during her dietetics training, particularly to understand eating behaviours, the focus was upon using empirical science for a materialist understanding of nutrition and the human body. Food is obtained, prepared and eaten in socio-cultural contexts, and is therefore marinated in meaning. Thus the same food substances may affect different people in different ways, a phenomenon clearly germane to the controversial field of food hypersensitivity and intolerance. Food was no longer her focus; she was free of her demons and in control of her health. She focuses on a career symbolic of health and had morphed into a Kafka beetle. In Kafka’s story, the salesman wakes one day as an unrecognisable, grotesque beetle, trapped in a hopeless situation.
