The important concept of well-roundedness and multicultural awareness has been embraced by Vanderbilt University’s Center for Medicine, Health and Society.

Back in 2006, Vanderbilt University started an experiment that recalls the ideals of the 1960s. What if students learned by doing things in the real world?

Dr. Claudia Borzutzky appears as one of three Investigators, along with Dr. Alaina Vidmar and Cassandra Fink, of Dr. Pretlow’s W8Loss2Go program.

Pediatric endocrinologist Alaina Phillips Vidmar, M.D., is organizing the three-year W8Loss2Go smartphone app clinical trial slated to begin in 2019.

Could it be possible that the demonstrable addictiveness of food could be explained not by the presence of evil ingredients but by a lack of useful nutrients?

Allen Carr, who helped millions of people to quit smoking, branched out into weight loss, because compulsive eating is similar to compulsive nicotine use.

Despite wide acclaim from the media and grateful clients, smoking cessation expert Allen Carr was scorned by many medical professionals.

The work of Allen Carr, the author of “The Easy Way to Stop Smoking,” continues, with an impressive number of success stories, including many celebrities.

Allen Carr’s deliberately repetitive book, The Easy Way to Stop Smoking, theorized that smokers wanted to relieve anxiety created by their nicotine addiction.

Perhaps the most exciting aspect of CBT is its trans-diagnostic approach. Adventurous therapists have adapted it to meet an astonishing variety of needs.

Whether compulsive overeating is defined as a substance addiction or a behavioral addiction, cognitive behavioral therapy might be able handle it.

What does the Mayo Clinic say about cognitive behavioral therapy, especially as it is applicable in the areas of obesity, addiction, and eating disorders?

Research shows Cognitive Behavioral Therapy could help people quit smoking, and could help treat cross-addiction.

Studies of how children handle food cravings seem to promise real and meaningful change with using cognitive training regimen.

When it comes to lifestyle modification programs that affect obesity, diet, physical activity, and cognitive-behavioral therapy can work together.

In dealing with binge eating disorder, behavioral weight loss treatment was shown to produce weight loss, but CBT got better results in the long term.

Studies of smartphone-supported psychological interventions in relation to treating anxiety and depression look promising.

A recent study demonstrated the effectiveness of a smartphone cognitive behavioral therapy in treating clinically diagnosed depression.

Cognitive behavioral therapy is recognized as the best established treatment for binge eating disorder, the most common eating disorder.

Insufficient or poor sleep causes fatigue and stress. This may result in comfort or stress eating, more weight gain, and more stress.

A recent study indicated that Ireland’s child obesity rates were no longer rising. What are some of the current obesity-prevention initiatives in Ireland?

Behavior change brought on by the effects of nudge theory is not by itself enough to make a big dent in obesity and the attendant chronic disease, some experts say.

An issue particularly vital to obesity research and choice architecture is that self-reporting can be accidentally inaccurate, or even purposefully misleading.

Critics say that despite new research the people in charge of the dietary guidelines are willfully ignoring the pertinent, “carbs bad, fat okay” studies.

What’s the update on MyPlate, the dietary guideline graphic created to replace the food pyramid, and revised every five years?

Is manipulation always bad? Some philosophers would say yes. Others would say it’s the only way to get things done.

Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky demonstrated that people, including experts, unwittingly use irrelevant criteria in decision-making, including cognitive bias.

Whether undergoing treatment or participating in a research project, we hope that people will act in ways that benefit themselves, but they often do not.

At the very least, technology deployed throughout the treatment or study can tip off the researcher when the patient is non-compliant.

Why do some patients knowingly sabotage their treatment and/or the scientific research they might be involved in? And how well do physicians understand NCB?