Recommending gastric bypass as a national solution for our diabetes epidemic is bad medicine and bad economics.

The body is one integrated system, not a collection of organs divided up by medical specialties. The medicine of the future connects everything.

Children with obesity and diabetes live harder poorer lives, they often don't finish school and earn much less than their healthy counterparts.

Your social networks may matter more than your genetic networks. But if your friends have healthy habits you are more likely to as well. So get healthy friends.

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

I have experienced some amazing food! Yet when I think about the most luxurious and exquisite meals I have had, visions of simple food made from a few natural ingredients are what most excite me.

The body maintains balance in only a handful of ways. At the end of the day, disease occurs when these basic systems are out of whack.