My experience of this holiday fit more into the "anti- body" then "body centered" only because no one was focused on the nutrition side of the meal, thanksgiving is an excuse to eat like a pig and not feel to bad about it after wards.
When people get together with they're family they tend to stop caring about what they eat and how much of it, the focus is the family. When my family comes together for thanksgiving we dont focus on the food as much as others, we play games and watch movies and once the food is ready we sit at the table and we eat. I wouldn't say that the food dominated the event but it is the highlight. Once we eat its back to being active, my mother doesn't like it when people sit around after they eat. Some families might exclude certain foods that are apart of the "traditional" thanksgiving meal because diabetes might run in they're family or they're over weight family members.
Some of my uncles and cousins did watch the football game after the meal, but everyone else was socializing. The death of a family member could alter the "anti-body vs body centered" cultural practice a family that usually eats fatty and salty foods that is prone to diabetes might try to change their diets after a love one dies or gets really sick from diabetes. Sometimes it takes sickness and dying for people to start to change their ways.
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