There's no such thing as junk food. There's junk and there's food.

Heart disease is not a Lipitor, Crestor or even an “anacetrapib” deficiency. It is a complex end result of multiple factors driven by our diet, fitness level, stress, and other lifestyle factors such as smoking, social connections, and, increasingly, environmental toxins.

Tricking your brain into thinking you are getting something sweet plays dirty tricks on your metabolism.

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.

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

The power of community to create health is far greater than any physician, clinic or hospital.