[Life cannot consist of dreams alone: reflections on advertising and a healthy diet].

In this essay we present some thoughts on advertising and a healthy diet in the contemporary world, where consumption plays a highly relevant role. We seek to emphasize two aspects, among many others yet to be explored in the scientific literature in the food and nutritional field: the hegemony of the biomedical paradigm and the fragmentation of human life when advertising campaigns associate food with the idea of a healthy diet. We believe that we cannot merely live through advertisements in which our desires are triggered constantly and where the world is only dreams and the main goal is to sell more and earn more, even using some strategies for dissemination of biomedical and nutritional information.

[Eating, nourishment and nutrition: instrumental analytic categories in the scientific research field].

Eating, nourishment or nutrition circulate in our culture as synonyms and thus do not account for the changes that occur in nourishment, which intended or unintended, have a hybridization pattern that represents a change of rules and food preferences. This paper aims to take these common sense conceptions as analytic categories for analyzing and interpreting research for the Humanities and Health Sciences in a theoretical perspective, through conceptualization. The food is associated with a natural function (biological), a concept in which nature is opposed to culture, and nourishment takes cultural meanings (symbolic), expressing the division of labor, wealth, and a historical and cultural creation through which one can study a society.

[Research on Food in Brazil: sustaining the autonomy of the Food and Nutrition field].

Based on Bourdieu's thoughts about the scientific fields, we visited the Research Groups Directory of the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), seeking to invest in critical and reflective approach on the segment of Brazilian research work concerned with "food". We identified a stable and growing set of research groups whose visibility is compromised, once its name is not included in the institutional taxonomies within the agencies that support research and researchers' formation. Its epistemological foundations, its theoretical and methodological bases are located in the sphere of Humanities and include a wide range of interacting disciplines, forming a significant complexity around its central object: food.

[Food and Nutrition in Public Health: constitution, contours and scientific status].

This paper aims to examine the route on which Food and Nutrition in Public Health was build in the Brazilian context, from its fields of origin, identifying tensions and convergences, seeking to demarcate its boundaries and to characterize its status within the scientific field. We seek to evince the existence of a movement marked by the fruitful encounter between the field of "Public Health" and a portion of the field of "Food and Nutrition", or more precisely, one of their cores, starring actors oriented by knowledge distinguished from other nuclei in this field. Such phenomena, that we postulate as outcomes of the contact nuclei of knowledge that identify the Public Health with the field of "Food and Nutrition", led to a specific core of distinct knowledge and praxis in this context corresponds to what we call "Food and Nutrition in Public Health".

[Research on food and nutritional security in Brazil from 2000 to 2005: trends and challenges].

Discussion of Research on Food and Nutritional Security (FNS) in Brazil started with the Directory of Brazilian Research Groups from the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq). Searches using the expression 'food security' allowed the identification of 72 groups in 2005. Proportions between researchers and students suggest little dynamism and consolidation of such research.

[How could Gerontology, a multidisciplinary field of knowledge, be included in CNPq's Table of Knowledge Areas?].

We discuss the possibility of including Gerontology in the CNPq Areas of Knowledge Table, in a scenario where this Table is being questioned by the scientific community, particularly with regard to the inclusion of multidisciplinary areas. Based on Foucault, we view the Tree of Knowledge as taxonomy, a continuum in which all areas are placed side by side, closer together or further apart, depending on their similarities and differences. This finite linear approach establishes that a certain Area of knowledge may be placed only at a point along the line corresponding to a Greater Area.

[The being that ages: technique, science and knowledge].

We address Gerontology in its perception as the science of aging. Based on Bachelard and Canguilhem, we discuss the perspectives of Gerontology as science in terms of Aging Philosophy, Aging Genetics or Bio-Gerontology, and as a set of techniques for cure such as pain relief, action on life of the being that ages through Geriatrics, Psycho-geriatrics, Geriatric Nursing and Social Service. Based on Foucault, we consider that Gerontology comprises all knowledge on that unique being who thinks about himself and about his own representations, through Anthropology, Psychoanalysis, and so on.