From the Diagnosis Dictionary

Diet
Nutrition, Obesity, Weight Control

Why do we wrestle with what we eat and how much we eat? Sometimes we eat the right foods in the right portions, and sometimes we eat the entire dinner table and all the wrong foods. Why is it so hard to eat healthfully? Whether you're trying to lose a few pounds or maintain a nutritious diet, you'll find answers to your questions here.

Diet Tests

Emotional Eating

See if your relationship with food is healthy.

Nutrition Quotient

See if you know the good from the bad.

Vitamin Test

Do you have enough letters in your diet?

The Latest on Diet

French food is fatty but French life can keep you trim. by Susan Carnell, Ph.D.

Show me your plate, I'll tell you who you are! by Dr. Deanna Minich

Weighing College Students: Discrimination or Life Saving? by Susan Albers, Psy.D.

Does my husband's weight have anything to do with my mother? by Simon Y. Feuerman, Psy.D., L.C.S.W.

Easy Ways to Change Behavior by Susan Albers, Psy.D.

How dieting creates food addicts by Kelly McGonigal, Ph.D.

FIVE bites to help you eat healthier for your body and the planet by Dr. Deanna Minich

Eating, teaching, but still thesis-writing: one last link to anorexia by Emily Troscianko

The Character of Major Nidal Malik Hasan by Darcia Narvaez, Ph.D.

Do French Women Eat Mindlessly? by Susan Albers, Psy.D.

Diet Blogs

Mindful Eating
Rediscovering a healthy and joyful relationship with food.
By Jan Chozen Bays, M.D.
Comfort Cravings
How to soothe yourself without food--and how to eat healthfully and mindfully.
By Susan Albers, Psy.D.
Thinking Thin
Training your brain to think like a thin person, and other psychological techniques for healthy weight loss.
By Dr. Judith Beck
The Instinct Diet
How to lose weight and keep it off.
By Susan B. Roberts, Ph.D.
Cravings
The many ways food fills our lives.
By Susan McQuillan
What Fat Women Want
Wanting to be thin is only part of the story.
By Frances Kuffel
Let Them Eat Cake
A cardiologist challenges the conventional wisdom about diet, exercise, and heart health.
By Rob Siegel
Intelligent Nutrition
Exploring nutrition therapy for medical conditions and for optimization of individual biochemistry and metabolism.
By Leyla Muedin
Thinking Food
A blog about the cognitive implications of what we eat.
By Dan Marano
The Science of Willpower
Secrets for self-control without suffering.
By Kelly McGonigal, Ph.D.