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Author Chrzan, Janet, author.

Title Anxious eaters : why we fall for fad diets / Janet Chrzan and Kima Cargill.

Publication Info. New York : Columbia University Press, [2022]

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 344 pages).
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Series Arts and traditions of the table: perspectives on culinary history
Arts and traditions of the table.
Note Print version record
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 1. Why We Love Fad Diets -- 2. Food Removal Diets -- 3. Food Addiction -- 4. Clean Eating -- 5. Paleo Diets -- 6. Final Thoughts.
Summary Anxious Eaters shows that fad diets are popular because they fulfill crucial social and psychological needs--which is also why they tend to fail. Janet Chrzan and Kima Cargill bring together anthropology, psychology, and nutrition to explore what these programs promise yet rarely fulfill for dieters.
Subject Food habits -- Social aspects.
Nutrition -- Social aspects.
Diet -- Social aspects.
Reducing diets -- Social aspects.
Reducing diets -- Psychological aspects.
Diet Fads -- psychology.
Diet, Reducing -- psychology.
Feeding Behavior -- psychology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Agriculture & Food (see also POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Agriculture & Food Policy)
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Agriculture & Food.
Diet -- Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst00893305
Food habits -- Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst00930819
Nutrition -- Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst01042246
Reducing diets -- Psychological aspects. (OCoLC)fst01092298
Added Author Cargill, Kima, author.
Added Title Why we fall for fad diets
Other Form: Print version: Chrzan, Janet. Anxious eaters. New York : Columbia University Press, [2022] 9780231192446 (DLC) 2021058012 (OCoLC)1303075505
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