The Psychology of Eating: From Healthy to Disordered Behavior

The Meaning of Food 65 hot illnesses are treated with cold foods. Whether a food is considered “hot” or “cold” does not depend u ...

66 The Meaning of Food Food as a Statement of the Self Food provides information about individual identity and acts as a communi ...

The Meaning of Food 67 Figure 4.2 Food and sex. (Source: Advertising Archives.) Image not available in the electronic edition ...

68 The Meaning of Food The Joy of Sexby Alex Comfort (1974) was named after The Joy of Cooking and subtitled “A Gourmet Guide to ...

The Meaning of Food 69 to women was: Think about food all the time, but stay slim (Silverstein et al., 1986). Lawrence (1984) al ...

70 The Meaning of Food Food and self-control Food also represents self-control or the loss of control (see figure 4.4). Fasting ...

The Meaning of Food 71 century even saw the development of “hunger artists,” who, as Gordon (2000) noted, “had no moral or relig ...

72 The Meaning of Food Food as Social Interaction The meaning of food has also been explored within the contexts of its consumpt ...

The Meaning of Food 73 Van Ogtrop (1989) explored families’ eating behavior in the Netherlands and concluded that a desire to fe ...

74 The Meaning of Food and mothers in Wales that on the one hand women are responsible for the health of their family while on t ...

The Meaning of Food 75 Figure 4.6 Food: Health versus pleasure. (Source: Advertising Archives.) Image not available in the elect ...

76 The Meaning of Food of food as culture in terms of food as religious identity, food as social power, and food as a symbolic d ...

The Meaning of Food 77 of social worth” (p. 189). Early sociological writers such as Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx regarded foo ...

78 The Meaning of Food “Meat is, to many, synonymous with ‘real’ food.” He also suggested that even for vegetarians “the range o ...

The Meaning of Food 79 flesh provides perhaps the ultimate authentication of human superiority over the rest of nature, with the ...

80 The Meaning of Food humans because they are not natural, but neither can we eat animals which we have let into our civilized ...

The Meaning of Food 81 as an expression of social interaction, and as reflecting a cultural identity. In particular, food constr ...

5 The Meaning of Size Once food is eaten it is digested and incorporated into the body, and either used for immediate energy or ...

The Meaning of Size 83 range of occupations such as a travel guide, bartender, salesperson, general, information clerk, court je ...

84 The Meaning of Size addition, women were more likely to be presented nude or partially clad (Soley and Kurzbard, 1986). Resea ...