The Psychology of Eating: From Healthy to Disordered Behavior

Healthy Eating 25 of Health, 2000–2001) reported that although 86 percent of adults surveyed ate less than the five recommended ...

26 Healthy Eating but 10 to 30 percent in Swiss towns eating regularly at restaurants and 30 percent of the elderly in Greece an ...

Healthy Eating 27 In a further study of the elderly in the US, 474 noninstitutionalized individuals with ages from 65 to 98 were ...

28 Healthy Eating of processed foods shows no sign of declining. In a large-scale survey, Steptoe et al. (1995) found that healt ...

Healthy Eating 29 or controlled for. This artificial approach, however, may not reflect eating in the real world. Self-report me ...

30 Healthy Eating even if they do not know they are being observed, eating in a public place where they can be observed may not ...

3 Food Choice This chapter asks, “Why do people eat what they eat?” Much research has addressed the complex factors involved in ...

32 Food Choice preference for sweet tastes may be modified by familiarity. Furthermore, given the enormous cultural diversity on ...

Food Choice 33 problem of optimal nutrition” (Davis, 1928). The children were offered a variety of 10 to 12 healthy foods prepar ...

34 Food Choice Exposure Human beings need to consume a variety of foods in order to have a balanced diet, and yet show a fear an ...

Food Choice 35 that these negative consequences must occur within a short period of time after tasting the food, as telling chil ...

36 Food Choice and Horne, 1998). This series of studies used video material of “food dudes” older children enthusiastically con ...

Food Choice 37 parents than when they were not. Olivera et al. (1992) reported a correlation between mothers’ and children’s foo ...

38 Food Choice by 70 percent, and baked beans by 8 percent. Similarly, when Edwina Curry, then junior health minister in the UK, ...

Food Choice 39 Associative learning Associative learning refers to the impact of contingent factors on behavior. At times these ...

40 Food Choice Food as the reward Other research has explored the impact of using food as a reward. For these studies, gaining a ...

Food Choice 41 for food consumption as long as the “symbolic context” of reward delivery was positive and did not indicate that ...

42 Food Choice Birch et al., 2001), which operationalizes control in terms of monitoring, restriction, and pressure to eat, and ...

Food Choice 43 Problems with a developmental model A developmental approach to food choice provides detailed evidence on how foo ...

44 Food Choice behavior. Some research has highlighted a weak link between a person’s beliefs about their ability to control the ...