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.

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

Chronic disease is a foodborne illness. We ate our way into this mess, and we must eat our way out.

The facts are in, the science is beyond question. Sugar in all its forms is the root cause of our obesity epidemic and most of the chronic disease sucking the life out of our citizens and our economy - and, increasingly, the rest of the world. You name it, it’s caused by sugar: heart disease, cancer, dementia, type 2 diabetes, depression, and even acne, infertility and impotence.

The New Health Rules is the new manifesto for how to eat well, feel good, and live long. If you ever wondered what's really true about the things that work and the things that don't, look no further.

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

When it becomes a revolutionary act to eat real food, we are in trouble.