No matter how old you are, no matter how much you weigh, you can still control the health of your body.

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.

Surgery has trained me better than anything else to connect with people.

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.

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

You learn how to take care of people from the women in your life.

I get up in the morning and do a seven-minute yoga workout. I know the most likely time I'm going to do something is when I first get up, and I make it short because, like you, I don't really want to do that first thing in the morning.