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Tue 10 Oct 2007Forking out pleasureIn the first of a new monthly column, food writer John McKennaargues that there are many ways to take a healthy approach to food.In her fine book, Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy, the historian Barbara Ehrenreich notes that "suffering remains the almost exclusive preoccupation of professional psychology. Journals in the field have published 45,000 articles in the last 30 years on depression, but only 400 on joy."