Psychiatrist offers 21-day neuroscience-based program to improve eating habits
Food anxiety This is a problem that affects many people around the world. In the case of Chili he Department of Health Statistics and Information (DEIS, MINSAL) shows that 22.44% of boys and girls under 6 years old controlled by the public health system were diagnosed with overweight and 14.06% with obesity.
Nail National Health Survey (2017) revealed that 39.8% of the Chilean population is overweight, 31.2% is obese and 3.2% is morbidly obese. That is, Nearly three out of four Chileans suffer from some degree of malnutrition due to excess a figure that has increased by ten percentage points since 2010, when a prevalence of 64.4% was recorded.
And although obesity is a multifactorial disease, the psychiatrist Judson Brewer best-selling author Get rid of anxiety proposes an alternative to the problem in his new book Eating Without Hunger: Why We Feel Anxiety About Food and How to Stop It (2024, Paidos).

The psychiatrist who helps control food anxiety
In the book Eat without hungerBrewer presents a 21-day program based on neuroscience to improve eating habits.
Brewer, a psychiatrist specializing in addictions, has developed a simple and effective method for improving one’s diet. This method is based on more than twenty years of clinical research and the doctor’s extensive experience. So, Eat without hunger invites readers to identify with food from the freedom and lightness that comes from inner well-being.
The first thing, said the psychiatrist, is understand our brain to then reset our food triggers, create new habits and resolve any personal issues with self-esteem, anxiety, shame, anger or stress .
This plan addresses the need many people have for a solution to their food anxiety issues.
Brewer shares in his book the definitive antidote to dieting and food guilt. Provides tools to work with our brains instead of fighting cravings . With an empathetic and caring tone, invites readers to accept relapses and adopt a more compassionate attitude .

Which doctor suggests controlling food anxiety?
Judson Brewer is a psychiatrist with extensive experience and professional training in the field of addictions. His proposal is based on the combination of his professional experience with his own personal training in mindfulness, which he has been carrying out for over twenty years.
The psychiatrist has studied what he calls the science of self-control (self control) and applied it to the development of treatment programs for drug addiction and eating disorders.
He is a professor and director of research and innovation in the Department of Mindfulness at Brown University. . He is also the medical director of behavioral health at Sharecare and Research Affiliate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Previously, the doctor held research and teaching positions at Yale University and the Mindfulness Center at the University of Massachusetts.

Source: Latercera

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