Questão 53 - Fuvestão 2013

Fuvestão 2013

Personal life-style is socially conditioned. Young
motorcyclists are happy to wear crash helmets if
that is what their friends and role models are doing.
Smokers are more likely to give up the habit if
smoking brings disapproval within their section of           5
society. Individuals are unlikely to eat very
differently from the rest of their families and social
circle, and the housewife buys what is readily
available and attractively priced, or what is most
strongly advertised. It makes little sense to expect          10
individuals to behave differently from their peers; it
is more appropriate to seek a general change in
behavioural norms and in the circumstances which
facilitate their adoption. To change an established
habit can be traumatic, whether it is stopping                   15
smoking, reducing salt intake or starting to use
condoms. Sometimes the trauma persists, but
more often it is the change which is troublesome.
The distress consequent on stopping smoking
eventually passes, and established non-smokers do     20
not continue to suffer. Food certainly tastes insipid
when salt intake has just been reduced, but after a
time it again tastes normal. Once society has
accepted a new norm of behaviour, then to maintain
the healthier habit no longer requires effort from             25
individuals. The health education phase is an
unfortunate temporary necessity, pending changes
in social norms. We no longer need to be reminded
to brush our teeth or to wash our hands after
defecation; it has become second nature.                        30
 
(Rose, G. The strategy of preventive medicine. GB, Oxford University Press.)
 
No texto, a expressão "second nature" (l. 30) pode ser substituída por
 

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