I just finished reading Gary Taubes article “Why the Campaign to Stop America’s Obesity Crisis Keeps Failing” at http://bit.ly/JYrg8m. He contends that our obesity epidemic isn’t a “calories in – calories out” problem, where we’re eating too many calories...Read more

Why do people put themselves through the agony of dieting only to gain it all back? It’s because they don’t have a very good relationship with food. Food is to nourish not only your body but also your soul. When you’re constantly in a mind battle over whether you should eat something,...Read more

Are you overdoing sugar? See what the American Heart Association is recommending at http://tinyurl.com/q4ekss.  They say women should get no more than 6 teaspoons and men no more than 9 teaspoons.  The next time you have a soda, consider the fact that  drinking 12 ounces will use up all of your day’s...Read more

Our brains are wired in such a way to guarantee that our bodies never go hungry. Dopamine, a neurotransmitter in the brain, gets us to focus on what’s most important in our environment for us to pay attention to. Now you may think it funny to hear that something like chocolate chip cookies could...Read more