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Using Lifestyle Medicine to Treat Illness by Changing Behavior

Lifestyle medicine is a six-sided approach to improving lifestyles as a treatment for chronic disease.

Understanding Xylophagia — The Addiction to Eating Paper

Examining the literature on xylophagia, an unusual, but not uncommon, addiction to eating paper.

New Research Into How Addiction Impacts the Brain’s Reward Pathway

Rockefeller University and Mount Sinai study the role of the nucleus accumbens in the brain’s reward pathway.

Compulsion, the First C of Addiction      

Let’s take a look at some deep dives into human psychology as it relates to addiction, compulsion, and displacement activity.

Understanding Habit Formation

An important aspect of recovery from addiction is learning how to disrupt or retrain bad habits.

Weight Loss and the Science of Habit Formation

A look at the way habit formation influences weight loss, eating addiction and other compulsive behaviors.