%0 Journal Article %T Sobre a tutela dos corpos infantis na rotina alimentar da creche %A Richter %A Ana Cristina %A Vaz %A Alexandre Fernadez %J Cadernos de Pesquisa %D 2011 %I Funda??o Carlos Chagas %R 10.1590/S0100-15742011000200008 %X 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. %K early childhood %K nutrition %K childhood food. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0100-15742011000200008&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en