Anxious Eaters: Why We Fall for Fad Diets Chrzan Janet
Anxious Eaters: Why We Fall for Fad Diets Chrzan Janet What makes fad diets so appealing to so many people? Why do people cycle on and off diets, perpetually searching for that one simple trick that…
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Anxious Eaters: Why We Fall for Fad Diets Chrzan Janet
What makes fad diets so appealing to so many people? Why do people cycle on and off diets, perpetually searching for that one simple trick that will solve everything? How did there get to be so many different ones, often with eerily similar prescriptions?
Janet Chrzan and Kima Cargill bring together anthropology, psychology, and nutrition to explore what these programs promise yet rarely fulfill for dieters. 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. 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