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• Title:The psychology of overeating : food and the culture of consumerism / by Kima Cargill.
  
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• Author/Creator:Cargill, Kima, author.
  
• Published/Created:London, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2015.
  ©2015
  

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  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: WM175 .C373 2015
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Eating disorders--Psychological aspects.
  Eating disorders--Social aspects.
  
• Medical Subjects: Hyperphagia--psychology.
  
• Description:xi, 198 pages ; 24 cm
  
• Summary:"Drawing on empirical research, clinical case material and vivid examples from modern culture, The Psychology of Overeating demonstrates that overeating must be understood as part of the wider cultural problem of consumption and materialism. Highlighting modern society's pathological need to consume, Kima Cargill explores how our limitless consumer culture offers an endless array of delicious food as well as easy money whilst obscuring the long-term effects of overconsumption. The book investigates how developments in food science, branding and marketing have transformed Western diets and how the food industry employs psychology to trick us into eating more and more -- and why we let them. Drawing striking parallels between 'Big Food' and 'Big Pharma', Cargill shows how both industries use similar tactics to manufacture desire, resist regulation and convince us that the solution to overconsumption is further consumption. Real-life examples illustrate how loneliness, depression and lack of purpose help to drive consumption, and how this is attributed to individual failure rather than wider culture. The first book to introduce a clinical and existential psychology perspective into the field of food studies, Cargill's interdisciplinary approach bridges the gulf between theory and practice. Key reading for students and researchers in food studies, psychology, health and nutrition and anyone wishing to learn more about the relationship between food and consumption." -- Publisher's description
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9781472581082 (Hardback)
  1472581083 (Hardback)
  9781472581075 (Paperback)
  1472581075 (Paperback)
  9781472581099 (ePDF)
  9781472581105 (ePub)
  
• Contents:The rise of consumer culture
  The psychological effects of consumer culture
  Food, money, and consumer culture
  How the food industry uses psychology to trick us (and why we let them)
  Sugar and sweet
  Hyperpalatable foods, hormones, and addiction
  Binge eating disorder, the DSM, and consumer culture
  The bedfellows of consumer culture : big food and big pharma
  The regulation of well-being: FDA and the nanny state.