While weight loss is important, what's more important is the quality of food you put in your body - food is information that quickly changes your metabolism and genes.

Shrinking someone's stomach to the size of a walnut with surgery is one way to battle obesity and diabetes and may be lifesaving for a few, but it doesn't address the underlying causes.

All medicine comes down to this: Find out what's bugging you; get rid of it. Find out what you need; get it. The body does the rest.

It is food - we now know that food is information, not just calories, and that it can upgrade your biologic software. The majority of chronic disease is primarily a food borne illness. We ate ourselves into this problem and we have to eat ourselves out of it.

It's more important to understand the imbalances in your body's basic systems and restore balance, rather than name the disease and match the pill to the ill.

You are more likely to be overweight if your friend's, friend's friend is overweight than if your parents are overweight.

The most powerful medicine is at the end of your fork, not at the bottom of your pill bottle. Food is more powerful than anything in your medicine cabinet!