Diet

When it comes to obesity, our solutions are perpetuating the problem. Despite the apparent range of responses, all points on the spectrum share a common value that both drives modern western culture and renders obesity an inevitable component of contemporary life. What is that value?  Read More

Many of you are simply exhausted by the pace of modern life, and have found that sugar and caffeine give you a quick energy boost. What you've likely missed is that these are also "energy loan sharks." Borrowing money from a loan shark is a bad idea, and so is getting your energy from energy loan sharks. Read More

 Many dieters and maintainers are mystified when the scale starts to go up. “But I’m doing everything the same!” they usually proclaim. That’s when I ask them a series of questions to try to figure out what has changed: Read More

"How do the French teach their children to eat well?"

The French Paradox is a question that research scientists have been puzzling over for 15 years. Why are the French able to eat more fat than Americans and yet have a lower incidence of heart disease and extra, unhealthy pounds? Research on this question has led to some interesting comparisons. My favorite is the difference between what French and American children eat for lunch at their schools.

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As a culture we spends millions of dollars and millions of hours trying lose weight and curb our addiction to too much food.  Medical Doctor and wellness expert Susan Biali shares simple, highly effective tips from her own successful battle against compulsive overeating (and dieting) that you can easily start to implement today. Read More

It seems there's a different study every week saying what works best to battle the bulge.  But on days it's a major struggle to work out, you'll try anything, right? Here are seven interesting findings that just might make your next trip to the gym a bit easier. Read More

Dr. Beck will appear on the Dr. Oz show tomorrow, Thursday, February 18th, advising a family whose health will likely become compromised if they don't change the way they eat. Read More

"Too fat to fly?" This is the headline that splashed across newspapers and blogs across the world. Kevin Smith, director of several well known movies such as Chasing Amy and Dogma, was ejected from a Southwest flight due to his size.

We have to ask why this story caused so much interest and controversy? It was such a popular story that the Southwest computer system became overloaded and temporarily shut down by the volume of responses. Read More

Here's one way to feel less guilty: By knowing for sure that the chocolate you're savoring isn't the result of real-live modern-day slave labor -- that is, ten-year-olds sold to plantation bosses, then beaten and nearly starved while picking cacao in twelve-hour shifts -- but rather comes from independent farmers who are doing their best to build better communities. Read More