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Using Self-Hypnosis to Manage Weight
Because so much of weight control is truly a case of mind over matter, hypnosis can be a very effective tool for weight loss. Let’s look at five steps you can take to self-hypnotize and start losing those few (or many) extra pounds.read more (Source: Psychology Today Food and Diet Center)
Source: Psychology Today Food and Diet Center - August 15, 2014 Category: Nutrition Authors: Beverly D. Flaxington Tags: Diet Eating Disorders Health Self-Help hypnosis mind over matter overweight self-hypnosis self-hypnotize weight control Source Type: news

The Loss of Robin Williams and Holistic Care for Depression
Robin Williams' brilliance left us way too early. Here are some steps to help us consider a more holistic and integrative model to deal with severe depression.read more (Source: Psychology Today Food and Diet Center)
Source: Psychology Today Food and Diet Center - August 14, 2014 Category: Nutrition Authors: Peter Bongiorno, ND, LAc Tags: Depression Diet Integrative Medicine Psychiatry alcoholism curcumin Dead Poets Society digestive health drug addiction holistic medicine melatonin mr. keating naturopathic medicine Parkinson ' robin williams saffron SAMe Source Type: news

Bring Back Food for Food's Sake
I say, let’s ramp down this notion of food as fetish, food as porn, food as adventure, food as performance, and get back to basics: Food as food, as something we eat.read more (Source: Psychology Today Food and Diet Center)
Source: Psychology Today Food and Diet Center - August 14, 2014 Category: Nutrition Authors: Ethan Gilsdorf Tags: Diet Eating Disorders anthony bourdain Deadliest Catch Facebook food gourmet Jamie Oliver julia child Nigella Lawson twitter whole foods Source Type: news

Aspirin: The Drug of Choice
Want to prevent tumors? Think aspirin.read more (Source: Psychology Today Food and Diet Center)
Source: Psychology Today Food and Diet Center - August 14, 2014 Category: Nutrition Authors: Matthew J. Edlund, M.D. Tags: Diet Health aspirin bleeding cancer cancer prevention heart attacks mestastasis prevention metastases public health strokes Source Type: news

3 Steps for Changing Any Bad Habit or Forming Any Good One
Do you have a bad habit that you have been desperately trying to change for quite some time? Maybe it is quitting smoking or ending your love affair with donuts. Or maybe you are trying to cultivate a good habit such as going for daily runs or calling your mom more? Whatever the case, you know it isn't from a lack of trying.read more (Source: Psychology Today Food and Diet Center)
Source: Psychology Today Food and Diet Center - August 13, 2014 Category: Nutrition Authors: Adoree Durayappah, MAPP Tags: Diet Happiness Health Self-Help changing bad habits eating habits Source Type: news

Dear Abby Attacks Overweight Woman
When Dear Abby, barking insults like a 1950s football coach, attacked a young woman for being overweight, she was doing more harm than she could imagine. Instead of being a great source of motivation, shame makes bad problems worse.read more (Source: Psychology Today Food and Diet Center)
Source: Psychology Today Food and Diet Center - August 13, 2014 Category: Nutrition Authors: David Niven, Ph.D. Tags: Diet Gender Media Self-Help dear abby motivation Obesity shame Source Type: news

Where’d the Nose Go?
“If you had to lose one sense…which one would it be? Sight, hearing, touch, taste or smell?”read more (Source: Psychology Today Food and Diet Center)
Source: Psychology Today Food and Diet Center - August 12, 2014 Category: Nutrition Authors: Gayil Nalls, Ph.D. Tags: Diet Environment Happiness Health allergies anosmia depression dysosmia effects of smoking Gayil Nalls hyposmia loss of sense of smell loss of smell loss of taste Memory nose olfaction pleasure prevention seniors se Source Type: news

Depression and Body Dissatisfaction in Midlife Women
Why are we comparing ourselves to something that is not realistically attainable for most women? read more (Source: Psychology Today Food and Diet Center)
Source: Psychology Today Food and Diet Center - August 8, 2014 Category: Nutrition Authors: Mary E. Pritchard, Ph.D. Tags: Diet Eating Disorders Self-Help body dissatisfaction media influence midlife women Source Type: news

Shooting Electricity Into Your Brain
Medical science has a 2,000 year history of shooting electricity into the brains of sick people. Here's ten fun facts about that...read more (Source: Psychology Today Food and Diet Center)
Source: Psychology Today Food and Diet Center - August 8, 2014 Category: Nutrition Authors: Stephen Seager, M.D. Tags: Diet Ethics and Morality Neuroscience Race and Ethnicity Relationships Resilience Self-Help Sex Sleep Therapy ECT electric shocks. history fun facts Source Type: news

Who's Lying About Not Eating Meat?
A new study shows that just thinking about the treatment of animals in slaughterhouses causes women—but not men—to "strategically under-report" their meat consumption. Why are women more likely to lie about eating animals? read more (Source: Psychology Today Food and Diet Center)
Source: Psychology Today Food and Diet Center - August 8, 2014 Category: Nutrition Authors: Hal Herzog, Ph.D. Tags: Animal Behavior Diet Eating Disorders Gender cognitive dissonalnce meat-eating sex differences vegetarianism Source Type: news

Do Women Lie More Than Men About Eating Animals?
A new study shows that just thinking about the treatment of animals in slaughterhouses causes women—but not men—to "strategically under-report" their meat consumption. Why are women more likely to lie about eating animals? read more (Source: Psychology Today Food and Diet Center)
Source: Psychology Today Food and Diet Center - August 8, 2014 Category: Nutrition Authors: Hal Herzog, Ph.D. Tags: Animal Behavior Diet Eating Disorders Gender cognitive dissonalnce meat-eating sex differences vegetarianism Source Type: news

When Does Feedback Increase or Decrease Motivation?
We have an intuitive sense about how performance feedback influences our motivation—that learning we’re on track will be motivating and finding we’re not meeting expectations will be demotivating. But that’s not necessarily the case. It’s all in our interpretation of what the feedback means.read more (Source: Psychology Today Food and Diet Center)
Source: Psychology Today Food and Diet Center - August 7, 2014 Category: Nutrition Authors: Elliot T. Berkman, Ph.D. Tags: Diet Happiness Procrastination Self-Help construal feedback goal commitment goal progress goals long-term goals motivation short-term goals Source Type: news

A Hijacked Brain and a Tongue Held Hostage
We are not what we eat. We eat what we are. read more (Source: Psychology Today Food and Diet Center)
Source: Psychology Today Food and Diet Center - August 7, 2014 Category: Nutrition Authors: Billi Gordon, Ph.D. Tags: Diet Eating Disorders Health Neuroscience brain brain-gut axis food gut bacteria diet microbes mood probiotics taste Source Type: news

Is Being Vegan Feminized?
In what ways do constructions of masculinity and femininity impact the food choices we make?read more (Source: Psychology Today Food and Diet Center)
Source: Psychology Today Food and Diet Center - August 6, 2014 Category: Nutrition Authors: Azadeh Aalai, Ph.D. Tags: Diet Gender Source Type: news

Coffee Is Good For the Aging Brain
Two cups of coffee in the morning may help us to better focus our attention during the performance of tasks that become more risky as we age. read more (Source: Psychology Today Food and Diet Center)
Source: Psychology Today Food and Diet Center - August 6, 2014 Category: Nutrition Authors: Professor Gary L. Wenk, Ph. D. Tags: Aging Cognition Diet Health Source Type: news