It appears I'm on a plea kick this month. I don't know why, but I am. This time my plea goes out to President Clinton: Get off the no fat/low fat, high carbohydrate diet you're on and start eating real foods rich in natural fats and proteins instead. It'll save...

Michelle Obama was on Good Morning America on Tuesday, February 9th to discuss her war on adolescent obesity. She calls it the 'Let's Move' campaign. I highly commend her effort and desire to end this epidemic. You can watch the segment here.

While...

And the thighs, and the back, the legs, etc.

A client said to me the other day "Fred the fat loss plan is working. It's slow going, but it's going."

"Slow?" I said. "How much faster do you think fat loss can happen?" At that she looked at me...

As a kid, I loved when my dad told this joke.

However, we all know that when you lose your keys its best to look for them where you lost them, not where the light is better. You'd think the fitness industry would get this joke by now but...

A recent article in the New York Times discussed the idea of placing taxes on sugary beverages in an effort to curb obesity. While it is true that increased sugar consumption is by far the fastest and quite frankly, the only way to become obese, what's next? A fat...

Listening to Leonard Lopate's show Please Explain on WNYC last Friday, I was struck dumb by some of the information his two guests -- Dr. Louis Aronne Clinical Professor of Medicine at Weill-Cornell Medical College-NY Presbyterian Hospital and Director of the Comprehensive Weight Control Program and Dr. Kelly Brownell...

Marketing can be awesomely powerful.

A good marketer could sell catnip to a dog if need be. We've all been hoodwinked into buying some sort of product at one time or another in our lives that turned out to be a dud or a downright lie. Sea Monkeys...

My eldest daughter received her NYC Fitness Gram the other day. The Fitness Gram details her BMI, muscle strength, endurance, flexibility and aerobic fitness levels. It is sanctioned by the NYC Dept. of Education.

I realize that these tests are designed and created to asses the general health and...

A new client of ours whose 12-year-old son has been battling obesity sent me a link to the Mayo Clinic position stand on low-carbohydrate diets. It is written by two nurses who clearly have not educated themselves on the facts surrounding low-carbohydrate diets. These are the sorts of position...

Yesterday on Oprah and Friends radio show, Dr. Oz discussed my book Strong Kids Healthy Kids.

What was not discussed, to my great chagrin, was the issue of diet and obesity.

This issue is of great concern to me,...

People seem to be obsessed with balancing things.

As we all know, the word 'balanced' means stable, equal, correct, proportional.

We like balance.

Balance is especially good when it comes to car tires, the use of a see-saw, walking a tightrope or your stereo speakers.

But...

A new study (pdf) published on February 26th in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine conducted by Harvard scientist Dr. Frank Sacks and colleagues suggests that all diets, regardless of macronutrient content (fat, protein and carbohydrate) result in equal amounts of weight loss.

This is not particularly...

It is almost common knowledge these days that many of our children - some experts say as many as 1 in 20 - suffer from obesity and type II diabetes. Those that have sidestepped these conditions but who engage in the same behavior as the ones who suffer are only...