Whether you're six or sixty, if you go on a diet and lifestyle program and feel constrained, you're likely to go off it sooner or later. Offering a spectrum of choices is much more effective; then, you feel free and empowered.

Whether it's by helping us search for health-related information, connecting us with doctors through online portals, or enabling us to store and retrieve our medical records online, the Internet is starting to show the promise it has to transform the way people interact with and improve their own health and wellness.

Curious patients are more receptive to new ideas, and those who engage their health practitioners in a dialogue are much more likely to adhere to these recommendations.

When most people think about my work, they think about diet. To me, diet has always been the least interesting part of it.

Meaning is malleable: take it out, you get nihilism and despair. Put it in, you get sacredness and something most special.

An educated patient is empowered; thus, more likely to become healthy.

The need for love and intimacy is a fundamental human need, as primal as the need for food, water, and air.