Health Psychology : a Textbook

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6 Eating behaviour CHAPTER OVERVIEW This chapter first examines what constitutes a healthy diet, the links between diet and heal ...

WHAT IS A HEALTHY DIET? The nature of a good diet has changed dramatically over the years. In 1824 ‘The Family Oracle of Good He ...

Diet and illness onset Diet effects health through an individual’s weight in terms of the development of eating disorders or obe ...

loss as a 10 per cent decrease in weight has been shown to result in improved glucose metabolism (Blackburn and Kanders 1987; Wi ...

Research indicates that many people do not eat according to current recommenda- tions. Much research has explored why people eat ...

to be greater in males than females (both adults and children), to run in families (Hursti and Sjoden 1997), to be minimal in in ...

different vegetable to themselves (peas versus carrots). By the end of the study the children showed a shift in their vegetable ...

There is, however, some evidence that mothers and children are not always in line with each other. For example, Wardle (1995) re ...

In summary, social learning factors are central to choices about food. This includes significant others in the immediate environ ...

Not all researchers, however, agree with this conclusion. Dowey (1996) reviewed the literature examining food and rewards and ar ...

Much of the research carried out within this perspective has taken place within the laboratory as a means to provide a control ...

not particularly good predictors of behaviour per se which has generated work exploring the intention behaviour gap (Sutton 1998 ...

contradictory attitudes towards foods in terms of ‘tasty’, ‘healthy’, ‘fattening’ and ‘a treat’. Sparks et al. (2001) incorporat ...

gain, of illness), pleasure (over a success which deserves a treat) and guilt (about overeating) might contribute towards eating ...

larger than it really is. For example, Slade and Russell (1973) asked anorexics to adjust the distance between two lights on a b ...

conscious of your weight?’ The research has shown that, although those individuals with eating disorders show greater body dissa ...

(Waller et al. 1992; Hamilton and Waller 1993; Sumner et al. 1993). If such changes in body dissatisfaction can occur after only ...

Story et al. (1995) reported the results from a sample of 36,320 American students and suggested that higher social class was re ...

of relationship. So what might these psychological factors be? Research has explored the role of beliefs, the mother–daughter re ...