Acknowledgments
The first edition of this book was the product of many years of research,
supervision, teaching, and conferences. It is now 6 years later, and even
more students have passed through my room and even more lectures and
talks have been given. Over the past few years, I have also increasingly taught
a nonpsychology audience including medics, counselors, dieticians, and
nutritionists and have written papers for a more lay readership. I believe
this has helped me to distill the wood from the trees and to see exactly
what it is about psychological theory and research that is relevant to
understanding eating behavior. I am therefore grateful to all my students
who have enthusiastically engaged with my lectures on eating behavior
and have wanted to carry out studies in this area. I am also grateful to my
colleagues who have supported my research interests and have been pre-
pared to discuss ideas and projects. I hope that I have now got the balance
between wood and trees right!