客座讲师蒂莫西·沃尔什博士提供了一个窥探到当前精神病的认识，神经性贪食症，神经性厌食症和暴饮暴食。他需要学生在一种饮食失调症的心理和医疗行为的并发症，患者可能出现。沃尔什博士探讨背后的问题诊断，治疗，从医生的角度来看，了解这些疾病。他回顾了人口，物理，心理特点的典型患者患有这些疾病的人，饮食失调，发展多种因素的相互作用，使一些人比其他人更容易受到来自理论。

​在本次讲座中，教授布劳内尔询问是否现代农业是环境，文化和道义上的可持续。首先，他探讨了转基因食品都受益，阻碍世界可持续发展，如BT玉米的案例研究和污染环境的不同部位。其次，他讨论了动物福利的问题及其与可持续发展的关系，探索现代食品条件如何鼓励大规模生产肉。

Professor Brownell discusses what the green revolution is and how it has impacted the world scene in both positive and negative ways. On one hand, the green revolution has increased world food productivity and decreased world hunger; on the other hand, it has produced negative environmental effects and failed to benefit all countries involved. Professor Brownell also reviews the green revolution's technology advances including different kinds of irrigation systems, fertilizers, pesticides, and biotechnology, and describes the future of the green revolution in Africa.

主题包括口味喜好，对食物的反感，食物宗教，食物舒适性，社会仪式饮食，为粮食问题的社会规范的责任。 还审查营养不良的问题，例如，饮食失调，肥胖流行和全球影响的儿童食品广告的原因，贫穷和粮食，以及现代化环境如何影响每个人的饮食习惯。

Ashley Gearhardt gives a guest presentation about the relationship between food and addiction, and how emerging clinical research suggests that eating maps onto a model of addiction. Professor Kelly Brownell reviews how culture affects eating, from what's acceptable to eat to how to eat it. He reviews cultural differences between the American and French food cultures. He then suggests how American values are changing through recent movements which are concerned with the story of food and the features of food before it is consumed.