January/February 2011

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Editor's Note

Rich Simon

The old maxim "You should eat to live, not live to eat" may sound wise, but it's based on a profound misreading of the fundamental facts of human biology. Throughout the ages, you could argue, our species has always lived to eat.

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Recipe for Life

Recipe For Life

Is Attuned Eating the Answer to Diet Failure?

Judith Matz

Despite the common cultural notion that anyone can successfully lose weight---constantly reinforced by the $60 billion-a-year diet industry---at least 95 percent of dieters regain lost pounds. Here's an alternative approach to weight control. Read More
Chew Wisely

Chew Wisely

The Joy of Playing With Your Food

Fred Wistow

Remember as a kid being scrupulously taught that eating was a serious business that brooked no nonsense? A lifetime later, this author discovered that---as with so many other life lessons—his mother was totally wrong. Read More
I Think Therefore I Eat

I Think, Therefore I Eat

Skills for Successful Dieting

Judith Beck

From the viewpoint of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, the reason that dieters so frequently fail to stick to their healthy eating plans is simple: knowing what to do and knowing how to get yourself to do it are two entirely different skills. Read More
It's Not About the Food

It's Not About The Food

The Truth About Eating Disorders

Lisa Ferentz

The key to working effectively with eating disorders is understanding that starving, bingeing, and purging aren't simply bad habits. For treatment to work, it must get beyond the focus on negative behavior to grasp the emotional cycle of disordered eating. Read More

Extra Feature

Cyberspaced

Cyberspaced

Sherry Turkle Sees e-Life at the Crossroads

Rich Simon & Mary Sykes Wylie

MIT professor Sherry Turkle has spent the last 30 years studying what our machines have come to mean to us, and how they're altering—sometimes radically—our experience of intimacy, privacy, personal identity, and human connection. Read More

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