I have experienced some amazing food! Yet when I think about the most luxurious and exquisite meals I have had, visions of simple food made from a few natural ingredients are what most excite me.
The very fact that we are having a national conversation about what we should eat, that we are struggling with the question about what the best diet is, is symptomatic of how far we have strayed from the natural conditions that gave rise to our speci...
The best advice is to avoid foods with health claims on the label, or better yet avoid foods with labels in the first place.
You are more likely to be overweight if your friend's, friend's friend is overweight than if your parents are overweight.
Your social networks may matter more than your genetic networks. But if your friends have healthy habits you are more likely to as well. So get healthy friends.
One in four kids have either pre-diabetes or diabetes - what I like to call diabesity. How did this happen?
It is just physics - who can argue with Newton and the first law of thermodynamics?
We need community action and policies to support healthy communities.
Children with obesity and diabetes live harder poorer lives, they often don't finish school and earn much less than their healthy counterparts.
My advice is to give up stevia, aspartame, sucralose, sugar alcohols like xylitol and malitol, and all of the other heavily-used and marketed sweeteners unless you want to slow down your metabolism, gain weight, and become an addict.
There are ways to cut cravings by naturally balancing your blood sugar.
Recommending gastric bypass as a national solution for our diabetes epidemic is bad medicine and bad economics.
Shrinking someone's stomach to the size of a walnut with surgery is one way to battle obesity and diabetes and may be lifesaving for a few, but it doesn't address the underlying causes.
The way most doctors practice medicine right now isn't working.
The body maintains balance in only a handful of ways. At the end of the day, disease occurs when these basic systems are out of whack.
Placing too much emphasis on a yes/no diagnosis, meaning you either have a disease or you don't, can lead even the most well-meaning physicians to miss underlying causes and early warning signs of illness.
If you want to get healthy, you just might not want to go to a doctor. You might instead, go to church.
Just eat less and exercise more.
Tricking your brain into thinking you are getting something sweet plays dirty tricks on your metabolism.
You cannot control the primitive urges and hormones that drive your eating behavior.
