Dieting, Overweight and Obesity
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Dieting, Overweight and Obesity

Self-Regulation in a Food-Rich Environment

  1. 322 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Dieting, Overweight and Obesity

Self-Regulation in a Food-Rich Environment

About this book

Why do so many people become overweight and obese and why do they find it so difficult to lose weight? In this second edition of his influential book on Dieting, Overweight and Obesity, Wolfgang Stroebe – who developed the goal conflict model of eating – explores the physiological, environmental and psychological influence on weight gain and examines how these processes are affected by genetic factors.

Like the first edition, the book takes a social-cognitive approach to weight regulation and discusses how exposure to environmental cues can set-off overeating in chronic dieters. In addition to extensively revising and updating the chapters of the first edition, this second edition features three new chapters. The chapter on successful restrained eating reviews personality factors as well as recent experimental research on impulse control. The chapters on psychological treatment of obesity and on primary prevention describe and evaluate the various treatment and prevention approaches and the research conducted to assess their efficacy.

This book is essential reading for students, researchers and clinicians interested in an up-to-date review of the field of eating research and a new theoretical approach to the study of overweight and obesity.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Endorsements
  3. Half Title
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Dedication
  7. Table of Contents
  8. List of illustrations
  9. Acknowledgements
  10. Preface to the first edition
  11. Preface to the second edition
  12. 1. Dieting, overweight and obesity: An introduction
  13. 2. Prevalence and consequences of overweight and obesity
  14. 3. Energy balance and the genetics of body weight
  15. 4. Environmental causes of the increase in overweight and obesity
  16. 5. Classic theories of weight regulation in obesity
  17. 6. Restrained eating and the breakdown of self-regulation
  18. 7. Beyond the boundary model: A cognitive process theory of restrained eating
  19. 8. Successful restrained eaters and strategies to improve dieting success
  20. 9. Treatment of overweight and obesity
  21. 10. Prevention of overweight and obesity
  22. References
  23. Author Index
  24. Subject Index