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Anxious Eaters - Why We Fall for Fad Diets (Hardcover)
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Anxious Eaters - Why We Fall for Fad Diets (Hardcover)
Series: Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History
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What makes fad diets so appealing to so many people? How did there
get to be so many different ones, often with eerily similar
prescriptions? Why do people cycle on and off diets, perpetually
searching for that one simple trick that will solve everything? And
how did these fads become so central to conversations about food
and nutrition? Anxious Eaters shows that fad diets are popular
because they fulfill crucial social and psychological needs-which
is also why they tend to fail. Janet Chrzan and Kima Cargill bring
together anthropology, psychology, and nutrition to explore what
these programs promise yet rarely fulfill for dieters. They
demonstrate how fad diets help people cope with widespread
anxieties and offer tantalizing glimpses of attainable
self-transformation. Chrzan and Cargill emphasize the social
contexts of diets, arguing that beliefs about nutrition are deeply
rooted in pervasive cultural narratives. Although people choose to
adopt new eating habits for individual reasons, broader forces
shape why fad diets seem to make sense. Considering dietary beliefs
and practices in terms of culture, nutrition, and individual
psychological needs, Anxious Eaters refrains from moralizing or
promoting a "right" way to eat. Instead, it offers new ways of
understanding the popularity of a wide range of eating trends,
including the Atkins Diet and other low- or no-carb diets; beliefs
that ingredients like wheat products and sugars are toxic,
allergenic, or addictive; food avoidance and "Clean Eating"
practices; and paleo or primal diets. Anxious Eaters sheds new
light on why people adopt such diets and why these diets remain so
attractive even though they often fail.
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