Once someone you love commits suicide, you become a suicide survivor. That is what you are called. If someone you love dies of natural causes, or even in an accident, you are not called a survivor. Suicide is different.

When someone you love kills themselves, you experience something we...

I help people lose weight. It's what I do professionally and what I have done personally. I lost 50 pounds in 1990 and have kept it off. The most important thing I teach people to do is to keep food records. By that, I mean you write down everything that...

Henry Jaglom, the iconic writer/director whose films include: Eating, Someone To Love, New Years Day, Hollywood Dreams, and most recently Irene in Time, was kind enough to sit down with me and talk about his life, his art and his new play Just 45 Minutes From Broadway. Joining us was...

There has been a lot of focus lately on the weight and size of women thanks to several recent events. If you missed any of them, I will summarize them for you:

Ralph Lauren's company retouched a model to the point that her body looked emaciated with a large head...

"Your lips are not meant to be flotation devices for your face in case it capsizes." Carol Leifer

Have you seen Nicole Kidman lately? Delta Burke? Pamela Anderson? Kathie Lee Gifford? I have and it makes me really sad. All of these women were either beautiful, or...

Ever wonder why some of us use food to deal with stress and others don't? According to the work of Dr. Elissa Epel at the University of San Francisco's Center for Obesity Assessment and Treatment, we don't all react to stress in the same way.

When we are stressed...

One of my female clients came in very hurt one day. She said that her father had said to her, "Well, you know, you are not the most beautiful woman in the world."

I believe he had pictures of Bo Derek up all over his house. Needless to say, my...

You don't have to be famous for this to happen to you, but it helps. What is happening on Facebook, My Space, Twitter, and elsewhere online, is that people are impersonating celebrities. People are claiming to be Angelina Jolie, Michael Keaton, Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Richard Gere, George Clooney and...

Even if you are thin, that week before your period can be challenging. As women, we tend to get bloated and extra hungry 7 to 10 days before our monthly cycle. That means that if you get your period every 28 days, for 10 of those days you might feel...

Can we talk? I am dismayed by all the fake breasts lately. We are seeing a female form that is unnatural and surgically created. Very, very thin women with big breasts do not exist in nature. When you are extremely thin, the breast tissue goes too. Breasts are primarily made...

So I think I'm having a bit of a mid-life crisis. Actually crisis, is a bit too strong. I guess I just feel like shaking things up a bit. So I have been thinking about getting a tattoo.

After posting an informal Facebook poll, I found that people have...

According to the boss at Whole Foods, people don't know how to select healthy food. Do you think that is true? I have to wonder about that considering there is so much information out there, if people take a few minutes to learn it.

There are a few things...

There is much confusion over this ubiquitous substance. When I read the studies that concluded mercury was found in HFCS, I set about purging it from our house. It was everywhere. It was in my son's chocolate milk, catsup, bread, burger and hot dog buns, Gatorade and is even...

So I made an appointment with a psychic. She called the morning of our appointment to cancel because, she said, something unexpected came up. I still rescheduled. Am I crazy?

Is there such a thing as a psychic who can charge by the hour and tell you what is going...

Watching Michael Jackson's brothers say good-bye to him at the memorial was so painful. Watching his children was even worse. The entire family will have to live with the loss, the rest of their days.

Things are supposed to go in order. First you lose your Grandparents, then your parents...

At 39 years of age Dr. Yvonne Sanders-Butler thought she had pink eye, but it was way worse than that. As her symptoms worsened she was rushed to the hospital on the verge of a massive stroke. She was morbidly obese, had high blood pressure, was pre-diabetic and could have...

We professionals in the field of addiction, have not even come up with an agreed upon definition for recovery. This means we can't really study the effectiveness of various treatment modalities because we haven't defined success.

In June of 2007, at the Betty Ford Clinic, a team of top notch...

We think it is. We have enough scientific evidence now to tell us that we can train ourselves to crave, to build tolerance and to experience withdrawal when we ingest a lot of refined sugar. These are the hallmarks of addiction. Craving, tolerance and withdrawal.

Dr. Serge Ahmed, of...

We have identified the fat gene! It is not just a gene but it's a gene with a variant. It's called the DRD2 gene. The variant that is heavily associated with obesity, alcoholism and addiction is the A1 allele.

I believe that our...

111,000 people in the U.S. die each year from obesity related illnesses. It is one of the leading preventable causes of death in our country. Considering that 66.3% of us are overweight, and 32% fall into the category of obese, this is a major public health issue.

I have covered...