Analysis of the Association Between Food Cravings, Dieting, Food Addiction and Eating Disorders.DUBLIN Dublin, city, Republic of Ireland Dublin, Irish Baile Átha Cliath, county borough (1991 pop. 915,516), Leinster, capital of the Republic of Ireland, on Dublin Bay at the mouth of the Liffey River. , Ireland Ireland, Irish Eire (âr`ə) [to it are related the poetic Erin and perhaps the Latin Hibernia], island, 32,598 sq mi (84,429 sq km), second largest of the British Isles. -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c29054) has announced the addition of Food Cravings A food craving is an intense desire to consume a particular food, as opposed to food in general. Food cravings are especially common in people following structured diet plans, and often interfere with the best of intentions to adhere to a particular style of eating. and Addiction addiction: see drug addiction and drug abuse. to their offering. This book offers an unparalleled insight into food addictions and cravings, with chapters written by the foremost scientists in the field. The book is of interest to professionals in both industry and academia, students from a range of disciplines, clinicians working with patients in the field of food addiction and cravings, the media and consumers interested in the subject. The underlying neurochemistry neurochemistry /neu·ro·chem·is·try/ (-kem´is-tre) the branch of neurology dealing with the chemistry of the nervous system. neu·ro·chem·is·try n. of food reward and desire is discussed together with the influence of hormonal hormonal, adj/n beneficial component in some essential oils that helps to bring hormone secretions to normal levels. hormonal emanating from or pertaining to hormones. status on cravings, behavioral behavioral pertaining to behavior. behavioral disorders see vice. behavioral seizure see psychomotor seizure. explanations of the development of food cravings, and the link between dieting, cravings, food addiction and eating disorders eating disorders, in psychology, disorders in eating patterns that comprise four categories: anorexia nervosa, bulimia, rumination disorder, and pica. Anorexia nervosa is characterized by self-starvation to avoid obesity. .
Topics Covered
Section 1: Overview
1.1 A critique of food cravings research: theory, measurement, and
food intake
Section 2: Neurobiology of cravings
2.1 Neural circuitry of desire
2.2 Opioids, pleasure and food intake
2.3 Endocannabinoids: neuromodulators of food craving?
2.4 Food cravings and the neuropharmacology of food reward
2.5 Opioids and human ingestive behaviour
Section 3: Behavioural models of craving
3.1 Conditioning models of food craving
3.2 Learning in the development of food craving
Section 4: Cravings for chocolate
4.1 The special place of chocolate in the Anglo-American diet: towards
a sociology of food cravings and addictions
4.2 Psychological and pharmacological explanations of chocolate
craving
4.3 Chocolate: from adoration to addiction
4.4 Potentially psychoactive constituents of cocoa-containing products
Section 5: Hormonal status and cravings
5.1 Cravings and taste changes during pregnancy
5.2 Cravings across the menstrual cycle and in premenstrual syndrome
5.3 The pharmacological treatment of premenstrual dysphoric disorder:
effects on appetite and food cravings
Section 6: Mood, food, alcohol and addiction
6.1 Addiction to the chilli burn
6.2 Alcohol addiction and alcohol cravings
6.3 Depression, appetite and eating
6.4 Dependence-like features of carbohydrates
6.5 Functional foods: mood and craving
Section 7: Dieting, eating disorders and addiction
7.1 Dietary restraint and craving
7.2 Craving and binge eating
7.3 Characteristics of food cravers who binge eat
7.4 Eating disorders and addiction
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