Anxious Eaters shows that fad diets are popular because they fulfill crucial social and psychological needsâ 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.
Anxious Eaters shows that fad diets are popular because they fulfill crucial social and psychological needsâ 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.
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Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History
Janet Chrzan teaches nutritional anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Alcohol: Social Drinking in Cultural Context (2013) as well as coeditor of Research Methods for the Anthropological Study of Food and Nutrition (2017) and Organic Food, Farming, and Culture (2019). Kima Cargill is professor of psychology at the University of Washington, Tacoma. Her books include The Psychology of Overeating: Food, Culture, and Consumerism (2015) and Food Cults: How Fads, Dogma, and Doctrine Influence Diet (2016).
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Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Why We Love Fad Diets 2. Food Removal Diets 3. Food Addiction 4. Clean Eating 5. Paleo Diets 6. Final Thoughts Notes Bibliography Index