Do you get to buy a SUBWAY sandwich, where the owner of the shop is one of the most acerbic, sarcastic, 'salt of the earth' and hilarious women on the planet! You might think in fact that you have landed at Caroline's Comedy Club rather than your local sandwich shop!...

This past weekend I attended the Body Design by Gilda reunion in NYC. In the former basement studio (now turned club), where we used to lead hundreds of women to push themselves one more rep, one more jump we convened; but no, not in spandex.

In 1982 I moved to...

A few years ago during his trial for child molestation, I was asked by several national radio stations to comment on Michael Jackson's psychiatric status due to my work in the area of body image distortion, eating disorders and body dysmorphic disorders. Right after several interviews were set up however,...

It is one day from D-Day for parents who still don't know where their kids are going to kindergarten in the fall. This is the last week of public school! This from one parent and child: "It just sucks. School year's over and my son keeps asking...

In the last two days I have been thinking about what things are particular to living in New York City. Coming home on the subway yesterday, there were the usual 'hawkers'; people selling anything from newspapers, candy, and of course the mariachi musicians. (I am sorry, I don't even want...

I have a confession that for some reason comes a surprise to the audiences I speak to, (not my friends and family who know this well!). I am a massive 'foodie'. I love, love, love to eat, and to eat well. I can get ridiculously excited about the prospect of...

As I have pondered this request for a piece on tweens and body image for several weeks now, I realize that I need to present you with the brutal truth: Most adolescent girls' body image 'sucks.' According to the hundreds of tweens I have worked with over 20 years and...

I had to write this in honor of Mother's Day.

I lift a glass and salute all of you mothers out there who can be real and down with your intense negative feelings towards your kids at times.

With all of the love love love, think positive self-help mantras out...

The other day I was counseling a couple who came to me over their own fighting over their kids' food. He: "I think Karen defers to the kids too much. They should eat what is on their plate, and finish it all!" She: "I refuse to make my kid eat...

I was just asked to do this piece for Just Ask Marlene; the website that Wilhemina Models' head of the Junior Division has for girls and young women. It is not focused on girls who are or want to be models, but rather focused on healthy eating for...

Have you noticed your preteen spending more time away from you when what might feel like a minute ago they were asking you to stay longer at drop off?

Now they are preoccupied with the dramas going on between friends, spending more time with each other on the computer,...

Help! Is what most parents say in desperation when it comes to the sugar cry from their kids. "What should I do when my kids constantly ask for candy? I know it's not good for them to eat too much sugar, but that's all they want!"

Once your children are...

"My kid only eats three things!" Many parents say. A while back an article in the New York Times spoke of a company that now can analyze your DNA and find out such specific information as to why in fact, you might have never wanted to drink milk when you...

Anyone out there deal with this one yet? ( I am writing today for those with girls in that 8-14 year-old range.)

If you have trained yourself to stop saying: "Do I look fat in this?" out loud, particularly in front of your daughter, hoping to communicate a positive body...

This is what I say when my kids don't want to eat what I have painstakingly made. (Violins being played, actually, I am not a very good cook!) But I hear over and over from families who love to eat well, one of the parents is a fabulous cook, and...

We know all about it. Even the President couldn't part from his Blackberry. Is the term Crack-berry yet in the revised Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Psychiatric Disorders?

We are addicted to our devices that keep us abreast of the news, and in touch with each other....

Come on, confess; you love candy. You want to eat chocolate. Cookies, ice cream. And then there is the way you dialogue in your own head, that either allows you to do it some of the time, all of the time, none of the time.

Everyone has their own inner...

No, I did not say the "Fudge Factor" and weight loss, much as that is what you are wishing for. Although, like I say with any of your favorite foods; yes, you can lose weight eating chocolate, ice cream, and okay, fudge, too.

But I am talking here about something...

A woman consulting with me on diet issues reported this response to her husband when he started hinting that she was getting a bit too ample in the derriere. Pointing to his belly fat, she predicted that he had more of a chance of dying from his weight problem than...

You think I am taking this Obama Mania too far?

Well, how's this for a story: I was giving a talk to a school here in NYC on kids and eating issues. As we got to talking about the Picky Eaters, one parent raised her hand and told us that...