The Psychology of Eating: From Heathly to Disordered Behavior
The Psychology of Eating: From Heathly to Disordered Behavior Books
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Why do we eat what we eat? Why do so many people diet? Why are food and consequence the focal top of so many problems? The Psychology of Eating presents a lively and detailed overview of this broad field. Integrating psychological knowledge with insights from a variety of disciplines including sociology and medicine, this book explores a wide range of eating-correlated behavior, including the nature of a healthy diet, consequence concern, and the causes and treatment of obesity and eating disorders. Written in an accessible manner, The Psychology of Eating is an essential guide for general readers, students, teachers, and researchers who wish to expand their understanding of eating-correlated behavior.
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The Psychology of Eating is essentially a synopsis of various food and eating habits investigations conducted over the past 25 years. Ogden juxtaposes studies about food choice, obesity and dieting the contradict one another.
The Psychology of Eating is broad in it focus and sets forth no controversial theories. But, I found linking the do of Chinese foot binding, corsets, and dieting and extreme stretch. Women can choose to diet, some Chinese girls were forced to have their feet bound.
Ogden summaries the importance of the studies even as pin-pointing their inherit shortcomings. The book serves as a matter-of-fact reference and bibliography for anyone interested in exploring topics pertaining to diet, eating disorders, and obesity.
Rating: 5 / 5
Dr. Ogden’s book, “Psychology of Eating,” is a perfect reading pick for anyone interested in the field of eating disorders.
I’d like to highlight several aspects of the book in particular.
Chapter 4, “The Meaning of Food,” offers an unusually broad but much needed bird’s-eye view of the food and its existential valence. After offering various food classifications, Dr. Ogden reviews food as a cultural identity anchor, as a statement/expression of self, and reviews eating as a forum of social interaction. This broad lens perspective offers humanizing context for looking at food and diordered eating – and offers an vital counter-consequence to the often mechanistic and reductionistic discussions of disordered eating.
In chapter 7, “Dieting,” Dr. Ogden starts with a also broad socio-cultural lens of examining dieting as a modality of female oppression (on par with foot-binding, corsets, etc.). Dr. Orden proceeds with a balanced analysis of the Restraint Theory that has become an official platform for claiming that diets don’t work. And – no minor accomplishment – follows up with an honest critique of the Restraint Theory by posing such questions as: if attempting to restrain doesn’t work and presumably leads to overeating, then how do vegetarians and anorexics lose consequence and maintain consequence loss? This question – in light of what appears to be an emerging radical anti-dietism – is an vital reality check. The fact of the matter that the contemporary health lifestyles have begun to include rather devoted, long-term vegans, vegetarian, calorie-restricters, and even fixed detoxifiers/fasters whose experiences clearly contradict the no-restraint scare tactics. Dr. Ogden does a excellent job of summarizing the relevant research on this top.
As evidenced by Chapters 4 and 7, Dr. Ogden’s delivery style is that of a bird’s-eye view with a gradual and effective zooming-in. This from-general-to-specific resolution progression allows the reader to orbit nearly the come forth without bringing up the rear interest. Dr. Ogden doesn’t mislead: she starts with an overview of a chapter; nor does she abandon you to make random conclusions – each chapter ends with an effective summary.
The book is well-illustrated: it offers – my guess – about 30 figures/diagrams and some photos (check out a rather provocative ad on page 55 for a for-men-only candy bar).
Dr. Ogden reviews all the conceptual pillars of the field of the eating disorders: food, food choice, healthy eating, dieting, anorexia, bulimia, overeating, obesity; she reviews the standard treatment options (perhaps, the only area of the book that might be a reason for the second edition); summarizes various strands of relevant research, and culminates with an integrated develop of a diet.
In sum, Dr. Ogden’s “Psychology of Eating” is an encyclopedic feast on the topic of eating, dieting, disorder eating, and eating disorder treatment.
Pavel Somov, Ph.D.
Author of “Eating the Moment: 141 Mindful Practices to Overcome Overeating One Meal at a Time” (New Harbinger, Nov. 2008).
Rating: 5 / 5