Do you use food to comfort yourself when you're feeling depressed or stressed? Do you sometimes eat simply because you're bored? There are so many opportunities to snack and overeat mindlessly, it's no wonder that most diets fail. But mindless eating can lead to health problems, obesity, and a feeling that you've lost control. Eating the Moment ...
An expert on eating disorders shows readers how to end mindless eating and enjoy a balanced relationship with food. Here, she introduces concepts of awareness of eating behaviors, exercises for healing negative patterns, and a means for restoring tranquility to meals.
What is the full meaning of eating? What does it reveal about the soul? What is the meaning of human omnivorousness and the myriad customs that refine human eating, transforming animal feeding into human dining? This book examines the phenomena of eating, natural and cultural - from metabolism, appetite, and taste, to hospitality, table manners, ...
Taoists believe that everything in the universe is as it should be, and this belief is carried over into their cuisine. This book attempts to demonstrate how to apply this philosophy in choosing, preparing and eating our food.
Brief, fascinating essays on a variety of topics, including a memorable sketch of the author's father, who was a cook in a New Jersey diner famous for his sorrel soup.
Research into the nation's eating habits has grown rapidly in recent years, and this work presents an introduction to the main themes and results of this research. The work reviews the key literature and research on meals and meal taking in daily life, and gives an overview of the main theoretical debates in the field. A summary and discussion of ...
Eating is one of the most revealing of human behaviours - it exposes our most basic instincts and our most ritualized habits. In Carnal Appetites , Elspeth Probyn charts the explosion of interest in food - from the cults that spring up around celebrity chefs, to our love/hate relationship with fast food, our fetishization of food and sex, and the ...
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