I'm nutty for nutrition. I've become one of those people who can't stop talking about the connection between food and health. Now that I know how much changing what you eat can transform your life, I can't stop proselytizing.

I was having health issues all my life. You're just not conditioned to think of them as health issues.

So you start one person at a time. Change one person, you can change a village.

I keep wondering how to explain the experience of child abuse from the inside. I'm going to try to explain what my world was like when I was sexually abused. The thing you have to remember is that this was the thinking of a child.

I made the connection between food and weight, but feeling good or bad was a separate issue.

When you go out on a limb, that's when you really know you're living

People think that if [their abusive] parent apologizes, he'll turn into the person they needed him to be. He won't. An apology might help, but you can change your life without one.