Helping Patients Outsmart Overeating: Psychological Strategies for Doctors and Health Care Providers

Helping Patients Outsmart Overeating, written by an eating disorder therapist and a physician, offers a new paradigm for doctors and health care providers who treat patients with eating and weight concerns. It describes how both parties are frustrated by weight—loss plans and programs that fail in the long term, and presents a science—based explanation for why diets fail and how they, in fact, may adversely impact patients’ mental and physical health. The authors illustrate how providers ca...