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Anxious Eaters

Why We Fall for Fad Diets

By: Janet Chrzan,Kima Cargill

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Anxious Eaters

Why We Fall for Fad Diets

By: Janet Chrzan,Kima Cargill

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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Columbia University Press

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0231549806

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9780231549806

Alcohol

Social Drinking in Cultural Context

By: Janet Chrzan

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Alcohol

Social Drinking in Cultural Context

By: Janet Chrzan

From the publisher. The purpose of this book is to provide a critical examination of human use of alcohol across cultures and through time, thereby providing a framework for undergraduate students to self-consciously examine their beliefs about and use of alcohol. Almost all books written about alcohol for college students have a "problems" perspective, either clinically (alcohol as a drug) or societally (as deviance, or a social problem). Many students have problems responding to these approaches. Understanding human use of alcohol anthropologically is a refreshingly different and effective method of harm reduction, which can be used by instructors to teach students how to reduce potential damage to themselves and others, while at the same time conveying the "anthropological imagination.

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Routledge

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041589249X

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9780415892490

Anxious Eaters

Why We Fall for Fad Diets

By: Janet Chrzan,Kima Cargill

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Why We Fall for Fad Diets

By: Janet Chrzan,Kima Cargill

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Slow Travel and Tourism

By: Janet Dickinson,Les Lumsdon

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Slow Travel and Tourism

By: Janet Dickinson,Les Lumsdon

It is widely recognized that travel and tourism can have a high environmental impact and make a major contribution to climate change. It is therefore vital that ways to reduce these impacts are developed and implemented. 'Slow travel' provides such a concept, drawing on ideas from the 'slow food' movement with a concern for locality, ecology and quality of life. The aim of this book is to define slow travel and to discuss how some underlining values are likely to pervade new forms of sustainable development. It also aims to provide insights into the travel experience; these are explored in several chapters which bring new knowledge about sustainable transport tourism from across the world. In order to do this the book explores the concept of slow travel and sets out its core ingredients, comparing it with related frameworks such as low-carbon tourism and sustainable tourism development. The authors explain slow travel as holiday travel where air and car transport is rejected in favour of more environmentally benign forms of overland transport, which generally take much longer and become incorporated as part of the holiday experience. The book critically examines the key trends in tourism transport and recent climate change debates, setting out the main issues facing tourism planners. It reviews the potential for new consumption patterns, as well as current business models that facilitate hyper-mobility. This provides a cutting edge critique of the 'upstream' drivers to unsustainable tourism. Finally, the authors illustrate their approach through a series of case studies from around the world, featuring travel by train, bus, cycling and walking. Examples are drawn from Europe, Asia, Australia and the Americas. Cases include the Eurostar train (as an alternative to air travel), walking in the Appalachian Trail (US), the Euro-Velo network of long-distance cycling routes, canoe tours on the Gudena River in Denmark, sea kayaking in British Columbia (Canada) and the Oz Bus Europe to Australia.

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239

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Routledge

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1136531726

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9781136531729

Research Methods for Anthropological Studies of Food and Nutrition

Volumes I-III

By: Janet Chrzan,John Brett

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Research Methods for Anthropological Studies of Food and Nutrition

Volumes I-III

By: Janet Chrzan,John Brett

The dramatic increase in all things food in popular and academic fields during the last two decades has generated a diverse and dynamic set of approaches for understanding the complex relationships and interactions that determine how people eat and how diet affects culture. These volumes offer a comprehensive reference for students and established scholars interested in food and nutrition research in Nutritional and Biological Anthropology, Archaeology, Socio-Cultural and Linguistic Anthropology, Food Studies and Applied Public Health.

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Berghahn Books

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178533297X

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9781785332975

The Fourth Generation: Reminiscences by Janet Ross

By: Janet Ross

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The Fourth Generation: Reminiscences by Janet Ross

By: Janet Ross

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

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462

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Sagwan Press

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1340505673

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4TH GENERATION

By: Janet 1842-1927 Ross

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4TH GENERATION

By: Janet 1842-1927 Ross

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Wentworth Press

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1362580252

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Book's by Janet Chrzan

Anxious Eaters

Anxious Eaters

Alcohol

Alcohol

Anxious Eaters

Anxious Eaters

Slow Travel and Tourism

Slow Travel and Tourism

Research Methods for Anthropological Studies of Food and Nutrition

Research Methods for Anthropological Studies of Food and Nutrition

The Fourth Generation: Reminiscences by Janet Ross

The Fourth Generation: Reminiscences by Janet Ross

4TH GENERATION

4TH GENERATION

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