Eating behaviour

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dovey, Terry
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkshire, England : McGraw-Hill : Open University Press, 2010.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction : widely held assumptions and methods
  • 2. The energy demands of the brain : central mechanisms of eating
  • 3. Storage and digestion : peripheral mechanisms of eating
  • 4. Learning about food : developmental aspects of eating behaviour
  • 5. Choosing between foods : cognitive aspects of eating behaviour
  • 6. The effect of others : social aspects of eating behaviour
  • 7. Getting inside people's heads : restraint, emotional eating, disinhibition and their combined effects
  • 8. Dealing with obesity : dieting and drugs
  • 9. When eating behaviour goes wrong : anorexia nervosa, bulima nervosa and eating disorders not otherwise specified
  • 10. Tying up loose ends : towards a combined theory of eating behaviour.