Food is medicine! We have forgotten that!

I am proactive and looking to change my own behavior rather than others' - which is generally much more successful!

A gluten-free diet still allows you access to almost every fruit and vegetable, a variety of grains and legumes, your pick of dairy products, fresh meats and fish and a whole slew of special gluten-free delights to satisfy your pretzel-bagel-muffin-doughnut craving.

Don't make a different meal for every person, but make buildable meals. And, I do this with my kids, try to expand their palates gently.

Tell your kids they are perfect the way they are, but they shouldn't stay where they are forever because growing, testing the limits, and evolving make life better and more fulfilling.

Figuring out how to eat healthfully on your own without your parents' guidance is one of the hardest lessons you must learn when you leave home for college.

Growing up in my family, it wasn't important that we always be the best; it was important that we were going to try to be our best and give it our all.