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

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.

The Point, not unlike the Communist Chinese, the ACLU abhors individual religious freedom, and it supports only those civil liberties that fit its narrow political agenda.

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

Yet an estimated 99 percent of people who have a problem with eating gluten don't even know it. They ascribe their ill health or symptoms to something else-not gluten sensitivity, which is 100 percent curable.

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.

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.