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Are diets doomed to failure in the long term? How do eating disorders originate? Why do we worry so much about what we eat?
Is body weight due to a constitutional “set point†or to eating style? Do diets work or are they inevitably doomed to fail? Is self-monitoring (e.g., calorie counting, food diaries and regular weighing) useful or counterproductive. What accounts for eating disorders such as anorexia, binging and bulimia? How can they be managed?
Body dysmorphic disorder as a modern problem. To what extent does idealisation of thinness in the media contribute to dissatisfaction with body weight?
For all information about this free public lecture by Glenn D. Wilson, Visiting Gresham Professor of Psychology, please visit the event's page on the Gresham College website: http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/feast-or-camine-the-psychology-of-eating
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3 December 2013 at 6:00 pm |
Duration: | 1 hour |
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Museum of London |
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Gresham College |
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Free |
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