Eating behaviour
By: Terence M. Dovey
Contributors: ebrary, Inc
Publisher: McGraw-Hill; Open University Press; McGraw Hill/Open University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Berkshire, England
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9780335235834; 9780335235841; 9780335239405
Subjects: Food habits; Eating disorders
Description: This text covers the subject of eating and food related behaviour from the perspectives of the five main areas of psychology: developmental, cognitive, social, biological and pathological. It focuses on 'normal' eating behaviour, with some links into eating disorders and intervention.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Table of contents: title: 1. Introduction : widely held assumptions and methods; title: 2. The energy demands of the brain : central mechanisms of eating; title: 3. Storage and digestion : peripheral mechanisms of eating; title: 4. Learning about food : developmental aspects of eating behaviour; title: 5. Choosing between foods : cognitive aspects of eating behaviour; title: 6. The effect of others : social aspects of eating behaviour; title: 7. Getting inside people's heads : restraint, emotional eating, disinhibition and their combined effects; title: 8. Dealing with obesity : dieting and drugs; title: 9. When eating behaviour goes wrong : anorexia nervosa, bulima nervosa and eating disorders not otherwise specified; title: 10. Tying up loose ends : towards a combined theory of eating behaviour.