Eating behaviour [electronic resource] / Terence M. Dovey.

1. Introduction : widely held assumptions and methods
2. The energy demands of the brain : central mechanisms of eating
3. Storage and digestion : peripheral mechanisms of eating
4. Learning about food : developmental aspects of eating behaviour
5. Choosing between foods : cognitive aspects of eating behaviour
6. The effect of others : social aspects of eating behaviour
7. Getting inside people's heads : restraint, emotional eating, disinhibition and their combined effects
8. Dealing with obesity : dieting and drugs
9. When eating behaviour goes wrong : anorexia nervosa, bulima nervosa and eating disorders not otherwise specified
10. Tying up loose ends : towards a combined theory of eating behaviour.