Cravings

The many ways food fills our lives.

by Susan McQuillan

Sugar Buzz

After careful consideration and a review of the literature, a psychology professor at the University of Swansea, in Wales, recently announced there’s no evidence that sugar addiction plays a role in obesity or eating disorders, or that the condition even exists. Some beg to differ. Read More

A Carrot a Day Keeps the Wrinkles Away

Eating a vitamin-rich diet can help balance the aging process to keep you looking as young as you feel. If your skin is aging faster than the rest of your body, try a natural vitamin infusion to help slow things down.

According to some experts, if you can hang in there and stay healthy for the next few decades, new medical technologies will come along that could extend your life. They could be right.

While some foods are very sexy looking (tomato cleavage, the butt of a pear, a single cherry, anything that oozes) and folklore has long entertained us with tales about the aphrodisiac qualities of foods like oysters, chocolate, and snails, it's only rarely that, as a dietitian, I have anything professional to say about food and sex. Read More

Change Your Food Attitude

How you feel about the food you eat can determine the success of your diet. Read More

Your Brain on Food

Your mood is determined, in part, by the food you eat. And vice versa.

You say you want to lose weight and get fit, but you’re not doing it. Why not? Can’t find the motivation? Afraid you’re not doing it right? Don’t have the time? Think it’s pointless to try? Sorry, but you can, you will, you do, and it’s not. Read More

Stand Up and Lose Weight

People who sit a lot carry twice the risk of becoming obese and developing diabetes or heart disease as those who spend more time standing. So stand up while you read this blog!

No matter how early you started smoking, drinking, gambling, overspending, lying, procrastinating, eating junk food, or tossing recyclables into the regular garbage bin, you weren't born doing any of them. You learned how to do them. Read More

How to Live to 95

Pictured here is my friend, Arthur, out for lunch recently, just minutes after being advised by his physician to cut back on the sodium in his diet. Read More

It's OK to Cheat on Your Diet

Hungry people are miserable people. You don't have to be one of them. Read More

Drink Coffee!

Java lovers, raise your mugs! Researchers have discovered yet another way coffee may be good for your health. Read More

Eat Chocolate!

An ounce a day really could keep the doctor away. Come on over to the dark side.

It's true! Chocolate really is good for you. Some people have always known that; others still need to be convinced. But evidence continues to pile up in favor of enjoying a little of the dark stuff every day.

When it comes to long-term weight loss, researchers have finally found a real solution. Read More

Why There's Always Room for Dessert

You’ve heard the advice, “Don’t go food shopping on an empty stomach.” Anyone who’s inclined to overeat or indulge a junk food habit knows this is good advice. When your stomach’s doing the talking, it’s just too tempting to throw a cheesecake into the shopping cart. Now we know the origins of such temptation. Read More

Dieting and Disordered Eating

All eating behavior occurs on a continuum, which you can picture as a horizontal line with perfectly heathy eating habits at one end, and full-blown eating disorders on the other. Every other type of eating falls somewhere in between these two extremes. Where do you fit in? Read More

To Indulge or Not to Indulge

There are two ways to deal with compulsive overeating: Avoid your favorite binge foods, or embrace them. Read More

Food Abuse

When the editors at Psychology Today approached me a couple of years ago with an assignment to write a book called Breaking the Bonds of Food Addiction, my first (very conservative) thought was, “There’s no such thing as an addiction to food.” How could I possibly write 375 pages of material about a condition that doesn’t exist? I was wrong. Read More