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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)
Series Arts and traditions of the table: perspectives on culinary history
Arts and traditions of the table.
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.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Food habits -- Social aspects.
Nutrition -- Social aspects.
Diet -- Social aspects.
Reducing diets -- Social aspects.
Reducing diets -- Psychological aspects.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Agriculture & Food (see also POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Agriculture & Food Policy)
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Agriculture & Food.
Diet -- Social aspects
Food habits -- Social aspects
Nutrition -- Social aspects
Reducing diets -- Psychological aspects
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
ISBN 9780231549806
0231549806
9780231192446 (hardback)
Standard No. 10.7312/chrz19244