The more easily digestible and refined the carbohydrates, the greater the effect on our health, weight and well-being.

I am a particular fan of integrative exercise - that is, exercise that occurs in the course of doing some productive activity such as gardening, bicycling to work, doing home improvement projects and so on.

I fully support a national health care program for the U.S.

Pay attention to your body. The point is everybody is different. You have to figure out what works for you.

I have argued for years that we do not have a health care system in America. We have a disease-management system - one that depends on ruinously expensive drugs and surgeries that treat health conditions after they manifest rather than giving our citizens simple diet, lifestyle and therapeutic tools to keep them healthy.

The world is beset by many problems, but in my opinion, this hijacking of our brain's reward centers by electronic media is potentially one of the most destructive.

Dietary fat, whether saturated or not, is not a cause of obesity, heart disease or any other chronic disease of civilization.