ABSTRACT

Choice Recommended Read

This insightful, thought-provoking, and engaging book explores the truth behind how and why we eat and drink what we do. Instead of promising easy answers to eliminating picky eating or weight loss, this book approaches controversial eating and drinking issues from a more useful perspective—explaining the facts to promote understanding of our bodies. The only book to provide an educated reader with a broad, scientific understanding of these topics, The Psychology of Eating and Drinking explores basic eating and drinking processes, such as hunger and taste, as well as how these concepts influence complex topics such as eating disorders, alcohol use, and cuisine. This new edition is grounded in the most up-to-date advances in scientific research on eating and drinking behaviors and will be of interest to anyone.

chapter |10 pages

Introduction

The Essential Nutrients of the Psychology of Eating and Drinking

chapter |22 pages

Down The Hatch

Hunger and Satiety

chapter |22 pages

Genes Rule—Or Do They?

chapter |24 pages

One Person'S Meat Is Another Person'S Poison

The Effects of Experience on Food Preferences

chapter |18 pages

This Or That

Choosing What We Eat and Drink

chapter |21 pages

“Hunger Talks A Most Persuasive Language” 1

Anorexia and Bulimia

chapter |30 pages

The Battle with the Bulge

Overeating and Obesity

chapter |25 pages

Drinking Your Life Away

Alcohol Use and Abuse

chapter |9 pages

How Sweet It Is

Type 2 Diabetes

chapter |18 pages

Strictly About Females

chapter |22 pages

We Do Not Live By Bread Alone

Cuisine, Beer, and Wine