One study showed the would-be PE teachers stereotyped heavy kids by thinking they are inferior, even in brainpower and social graces.

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.

Stress eating and comfort eating are basically the same phenomenon, described in one instance by the cause and in the other, by the effect.

In both people and pets, the natural responses of the animal kingdom under threat — flee, fight, or freeze — have expanded to include an alternative: feed.

Studies show a strong correlation between irregular sleep patterns and childhood obesity.

Studies show psychobiotics can foster the temporary dampening of stress and anxiety, and improvements in both cognitive health and mood.

The microbiome is suspected of having something to do with anxiety, depression, autism, hyperactivity, and other mind- and behavior-related problems.

Reports show the microbiota could affect brain function and behavior, and also contribute to diseases ranging from inflammation to obesity.

Can the gentler, more altruistic branches of science gain useful knowledge from behavioral economists?

The benefits of nudging are not solidly proven. Also, is it moral and ethical? And if not, how can we allow the government to do it?

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.

In behavioral economics, nudging could be used to steer people toward acting in ways that are better for society as a whole, including obesity reduction.

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

Examples of choice architecture associated with healthier food choices are health labelling at POP, manipulating plate size, and payment option manipulation.

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?

What are the types of the patients’ non-compliant behavior (NCB) during clinical trials, and what are some of the reasons behind NCB?

Why would the clinical trial participants sabotage the program designed to help them? Looking at the root of non-compliant behavior may help find answers.

Non-compliant behavior is pervasive, often unintentional, and sometimes unavoidable. It also hurts patients and frustrates doctors.