Darya will discuss how psychology impacts our ability to create healthy eating habits. Darya Rose is a neuroscientist, author and popular blogger who has trained her sights and talents on solving the age-old problem of eating healthy and losing weight.

Her holistic approach to food and health is a breath of fresh air compared to the stuffy supermarket shelves of diet shakes and appetite suppressants.

After receiving her BA in Molecular and Cell Biology from UC Berkeley, Rose received her PhD from UC San Francisco and now writes about food, health and weight loss. Her website "Summer Tomato" was one of TIME’s top 50 websites in 2011, and if social media is any indicator, her message that "life should be awesome" is reaching far and wide.

Rose describes herself as a "foodist," which is a term for food fans and also the name of her book – Foodist: Using Real Food and Real Science to Lose Weight Without Dieting.

This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx