Hello,
in the following example:
----
\setupheadertexts[Left][Right]
\starttext
Aaa
\page
\startsection[title={Sec}]
\start
\setupbodyfont[6pt]
\dorecurse{12}{\input knuth}
\stop
\stopsection
\stoptext
----
header text size on page #2 is small (6 pt) although body font
change was intended only to text inside section "Sec" -
thus the text "\input knuth" is surrounded by \start ... \stop.
How to change the bodyfont size of the running text only (ad-hoc in
the middle of the document), without changing header text size?