cognitive therapy

SharpBrains has interviewed Judith Beck, author of The Beck Diet Solution. Beck brings the principles from cognitive behavior therapy into the field of weight loss.

The Beck Diet Solution is designed to be used alongside any healthy and nutritious diet.

What are the cognitive and emotional skills and habits that dieters need to train?

Brain Diet? Sounds gross… AND high in cholesterol. (Oh, I get it…never mind). I picked this book up expecting it to be much like any other of its kind - 250+ pages that could have been summarized in one paragraph. Boy was I wrong...

Just this morning I was thinking of the health consequences of severe dieting episodes.

In the quest to follow strict low-fat diets and other extreme fads - many people now find themselves with health issues that may well have resulted from malnutrition. They are less fit, heavily medicated, and most likely are the same weight (or more) than when they started the vicious cycle of dieting.

Here's the good news: there is proof that an overall health and exercise program (without dieting) can have many positive results.

Two studies have appeared in two separate Neurology journals linking diet and cognition. One study links increased body weight with declining mental function, and another claims that a Mediterranean style diet can prevent Alzheimer's disease.

A small study has concluded that women who 'eat intuitively' are healthier than those who diet.

So what exactly is intuitive eating? "The basic premise of intuitive eating is, rather than manipulate what we eat in terms of prescribed diets -- how many calories a food has, how many grams of fat, specific food combinations or anything like that -- we should take internal cues, try to recognize what our body wants and then regulate how much we eat based on hunger and satiety,"