Behavior Modification

The Recovering Overeater

Judith J. Wurtman, PhD | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Addiction to Unhealthy Habits, Self-Improvement, Behavior Modification, Weight Loss Success, Adherence to New Behaviors Learned, Weight Loss Maintenance, Weight Maintenance, Maintenance Calories, Weight Maintenance Calories, New Research, Healthy Living News
Judith J. Wurtman, PhD

We can win this battle of weight maintenance by admitting that our desire to overeat never goes away. As long as our desire to control never goes away as well, we will win.

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5 Unhealthy Thoughts Women Have

Thought Catalog | Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: Ryan Gosling, Unhealthy Thoughts, Relationships, Dieting, Behavior-Modification, Appearance, Weddings, Women News

Girls are strange, mystical creatures -- like unicorns with boobs. It's cool if dudes don't understand us, but it's a problem when we don't even under...

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How Can Doctors Become Part Of The Obesity Solution?

David Katz, M.D. | Posted 02.04.2012

Read More: Behavior Modification, Counseling, Lifestyle, Healthy, Weigh Forward, Medical School, Clinical, Weight, Obesity, Physical Activity, Medical Education, Katz, Clinical Care, Weight Watchers, Exercise, Health, Nutrition, Dr. David Katz, Residency Training, Medicaid, Medicare, Clinician, News, Conditions, Cmms, Personal Health, Healthy Living News
David Katz, M.D.

With a nod to my many colleagues who are genuinely expert in weight management counseling, and have long addressed it well -- and especially to those who taught me to do so -- I must acknowledge that the track record for the large majority of our clan is not pretty.

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Republicans Sink Bill to Prevent Abuse in Teen Behavior Schools

Alex Koroknay-Palicz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Behavior Modification, Gop, HR 911, Child Abuse, Youth Rights, Senate Republicans, Tom Harkin, Troubled Teens, Politics News
Alex Koroknay-Palicz

I never suspected that stopping child abuse was a partisan issue. But negotiations over the Stop Child Abuse in Residential Programs for Teens Act have ended and Senate Republicans have simply said no.

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"The Nudge Factor" and Weight Loss

Donna Fish | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Behavior Modification, Weight Loss, The Nudge Factor, New York Times Magazine, Healthy Living News
Donna Fish

Little bits add up, and when we are talking input output here of calories taken in and burnt, things start to happen.

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