Every day millions of overweight women and men berate themselves for not being able to lose weight. They work out endlessly, cut calories until all they can do is think about food, try eating only grapefruit, only cabbage, or skip meals altogether -- and nothing seems to work. They feel...

At one time or another, we've all been promised this: "If the amount of calories we eat is less than the amount of calories our bodies use, we will lose weight." I'm sorry to say that this promise is false.

Women come to my door every day frustrated and...

When I was a child, I was surrounded by the positive energy of aboriginal cave drawings, healthy home-cooked meals, sunshine and the crystal waters of Australia. One of the reasons my childhood is such a sacred place in my mind is because everything changed when our family moved to America....

What if I told you I had the key to better sex, a leaner body and youthful skin? You'd probably look at me like I was crazy. There is no fountain of youth, right? I recently read an article on human growth hormone serving as the "so-called fountain...

I never thought I'd see the day that Betty Crocker came out with a gluten-free brownie mix. I'm astounded at the amount of gluten-free advertising out there -- Subway, Pizzeria Uno, Boston Market, Chili's, P.F. Chang's, Ruby Tuesday, King Arthur Flour, the list goes on and on. And it isn't...

How many people do you know who seem attached to their iPhone, iPad or Blackberry, or who stay up late at night on their computers? What about those people who wake up at 3 or 4 a.m. to go to the gym before work and then stay at work until...

At times I feel like I'm practicing medicine in a tunnel, one where the only way out is to prescribe pharmaceuticals that have gone through double-blind, placebo-controlled trials. Modern medicine has brought us many wonderful advances -- and, believe me, I understand that controlled trials are important -- but what...

I've seen women shed tears in my office when I tell them to stop eating sugar for a week.

Many of us have been brought up associating sugar with love and "being a good girl or boy," but it can also act like a drug in our brains. Sugar...

Most of us are genuinely trying to do our best to be healthy -- we buy organic food, try to drink filtered water, include more fruits and vegetables with every meal, the list goes on and on. But what about the plastic our organic vegetables are wrapped in? What about...

I spent many hours as a teenager working on the perfect tan, and though I was surely getting my fill of vitamin D, I was also setting myself up for major sun damage. I had freckles, a perpetual red nose and extreme rosacea into my 30s. I remember the day...

The other day I was at an acupuncture appointment and was struck by how good it felt to simply lie down on the table, to just stop and let my body relax. It made such a difference and the acupuncturist hadn't even begun my session! Again and again, I'm amazed...

When I was young and growing up in Australia, the sound of the ocean's waves lulled me to sleep every night. My family lived on two acres of land, some distance from our neighbors, and free of any street lights or traffic. It was the most wonderful way to drift...