Subject Index 373large intestinal cancer 15
learned safety 34 – 5
learning 259 – 60
see alsoassociative learning;
exposure; social learning
leptin 161
lesbians 103, 115
life events 204 – 6, 210
life expectancy 153, 221– 2
lipostatic hypothesis 50
lithium 54
lotus hooks (foot-binding) 117 –18
love, food as 66, 72, 74, 81
macronutrients 50, 161
magazines 68, 83 – 4, 85, 97, 106, 107,
121, 122, 123 – 4
magnification 240
male
body dissatisfaction 101– 2, 105,
114, 115
body size/shape 85, 87, 96
malnutrition 22 – 3
marijuana 53, 54
masking hypothesis 134
maternal adjustment 223
Maudsley Hospital (UK) 258
meat 39, 47, 68, 74, 77 – 80
media
associations with physical
characteristics 87
body dissatisfaction and 106 – 8
comic strips 82 – 3
female image 84 – 5, 86, 106
influence 37 – 8
magazines 68, 83–4, 85, 97, 106 – 7,
121, 122, 123 – 4
male image 85, 87
newspapers 83, 106
representations 82 – 7, 96
television 27, 37, 83, 97, 106 – 7,
165, 166
Medical Inspection Act (1907) 9
medicine, food as 65
Mental Health Act 258, 259, 273
metabolic models of eating 49 – 52
metabolic rate theory 159 – 60, 179,
189
micronutrients 14, 22, 161
mindless eating 57, 59 – 60
Minnesota Heart Study (1994) 20
mood 33, 55 – 7, 186, 188
dieting and 138 – 41
modification 134, 138, 139, 146
morbidity 155, 189, 199, 276 – 7
morphine 54
mortality 276
anorexia nervosa and 221– 2, 271,
272
bulimia nervosa and 231
obesity and 153 – 4, 188 – 9, 192 – 3
mother–child relationship 237 – 8
mother–daughter relationship 108 –12
motivational interviewing 268
multi-impulsivity 231, 233
multidimensional approach 183 – 5,
209
musculoskeletal disease 153
myocardium 12, 13naloxone 54
National Diet and Nutrition Survey
(1999) 26
National Food Survey (UK) 170
National Health Service 194
National Heart Forum 10
National Institutes of Health 151, 153
natural selection 162
nature, culture vs 77 – 80
neophobia 34, 43
nervous system 220, 223
neural model 235 – 6
neurochemicals 33, 49, 52 – 5, 61,
62, 162, 278