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Are You Stress Eating? Here's How to Find Out Stress is a very common reason for overindulging in comfort foods. Our brain's chemical responses to certain foods lead to habit-forming behavior, and even thinking about eating induces self-rewarding brain changes. A whopping 38% of adults say they overeat or choose fattening foods because of stress on a regular basis.1 While these…

Sugar Awareness: By Any Other Name It Tastes as Sweet Sugar is a concentrated energy source that causes body chemistry changes similar to addictive substances. Naturally occurring sugars are part of healthy eating and are linked to beneficial nutrients, but free or added sugars bring no added benefits. Many people struggle with traditional diets and have to fight the siren song of sugar. Developing sugar…

Feeding Our Feelings: Understanding Emotional Overeating Your personality, genetics, and personal history all have an impact on your relationship with food. One way that disordered eating develops is through emotional eating. When we use food to bury or avoid thinking about our emotions, we lose touch with physical hunger while we feed our feelings instead. Let's delve into the emotional triggers that can…

Elimination Diets: Why Dietary Diversity Is Better for Our Bodies A medically necessary elimination diet is used as a tool to identify or treat gastrointestinal allergies, but, even with supervision, these limited diets present a medically recognized risk of nutrient deficiencies.1 Essential micro-nutrients which are present in only a few foods can easily be eliminated in the process. Many people create their own exclusion…

Why Diet Cycles Are More Harmful than Helpful With new diets popping up on the horizon all the time, it’s no surprise that these passing trends can often leave people feeling unfulfilled once their diet plans have neared completion. People love quick fixes; however, diet cycles play a critical role that eventually leads to detrimental results, both mentally and physically.…

The Six Diet Types Every year millions of Americans go on diets. Every year many of them fail. This isn't because they're lazy or weak—it's because they don't know what's causing them to make unhealthy food choices in the first place. This is where DietQ comes in. Our researchers have identified six diet types that will help you understand why…

There are many studies that show your personality traits influences your eating behaviors. Personality traits or temperaments are primarily genetically formed. These traits make you be who you are and how you respond to life. Everyone is different! The real problem occurs when you do not know what traits are affecting your eating behaviors. It makes sense to first become…

The Wheel of Weight Loss: How to Break Free of Destructive Diet Cycles So many of us have become trapped in a cycle of endless dieting, broken by slips or binges that leave us with feelings of failure and helplessness. Breaking free of these diet cycles starts with understanding these behavior patterns, learning to listen to our bodies' messages, and…