‘Diet and Weight Loss’ at Psychology, Philosophy and Real Life, Page 4

A 2-year longitudinal study shows that men and women taking the experimental weight-loss drug rimonabant lost weight and kept it off. However, specialists warn that medication use should be minimized when lifestyle changes can achieve the same purpose.

As new figures show that mental ill-health is costing the UK almost £100 billion a year, evidence released today by the Mental Health Foundation and Sustain reveals that changes to the human diet in the last fifty years or so could be an important factor behind the major rise of mental ill-health in the UK.

Clinical psychologist and recovering anorectic Lucy Daniels offers a psychoanalytic perspective on the treatment of anorexia nervosa and raises concerns about the pitfalls of ineffective treatment.

It doesn’t take much to make a man feel satisfied with his body: a look in the mirror and a sense of well-being seem sufficient. For women, however, changes in body image need to be supported by hard, physical evidence. The results follow up on an earlier study suggesting that mirrors can make women feel worse about working out.

Following our earlier article on a Brigham Young University pilot study suggesting that an approach toward food called “intuitive eating” is better than restrictive diets for producing lower cholesterol levels, body mass index scores and cardiovascular disease risk, we’ve augmented our research library with more than a dozen new resources on the topic — ranging from self-help books on intuitive eating to controlled studies on the psychology of eating.