The transfats found in margarine, packaged cookies, crackers and pasta increase fat in your midsection, and can actually redistribute fat from other parts of the body to the belly.

Much of eating is about customs and habits, and we've developed some unfortunate ones. Not enough families eat together. We eat in front of the TV while we're absorbed in a program. You know, the average person will eat up to 50 percent more food when distracted.

Every person has the right to look and feel like a million bucks.

I think that we're beginning to globalize medicine now. You have to take Eastern approaches and bring them to the West, and share West with the East.

A lot of folks believe their best years are behind them. But I want Americans to recognize that's not true.

I was lucky enough to marry a wonderful chef.

We don't need sugar to live, and we don't need it as a society.