Rick Foster

On April 9, I posted an article, "My Year Off Sugar," which listed the many benefits I got from 12 months of sugar abstinence. The posting prompted wonderful, and sometimes frustrated, responses from Huffington Post readers -- both on the site and to me personally. The most edgy among them...

One year ago, in April 2011, I read an article by Gary Taubes in the New York Times Magazine that scared me straight off sugar. And I did it, cold turkey.

Until then, I'd never dieted in my life. In fact, I loved every dessert known to humankind. With impunity,...

Pretty much everybody wants to write a book. I know this because I've co-written a book, and everywhere I go -- for keynote speeches, presentations, training sessions, or to talk about our topic in any form -- people emerge from the audience to tell me about the book they, too,...

It is highly likely that our grandmothers - yours and mine - shared one crucial, deeply-held belief. Even though it's equally likely they were quite different as individuals, they agreed on something that the best educated and most sophisticated medical researchers are only now beginning to prove: that happiness has...

If you dissect the stunning business collapses of the past decade, you'll find that the corporations' senior leaders - very often, The Top Senior Leader - have been personally responsible for the debacle. And, it wasn't bad technical business decision-making that caused the problems leading up to the disaster. It...

We want to close this deal. But, our customer has sweaty palms, rapid heartbeat, deep breathing, hints of anger, perhaps fear, certainly distrust. There's no question in our mind: we're watching the sale evaporate.

By contrast, any seasoned salesperson will describe a receptive and sales-positive customer in the following physical...

I rail at the notion that American voting is all about the Cult of Personality, guilt by association, and frantic character assassination. It would be so civilized if we voted for a political philosophy or, at least, a platform of ethical principles. But most of us don't. What we vote...

In 2000 more than 50 million Americans had tried Prozac or some other form of mood-enhancing medication. Why? 9/11 hadn't happened; Al Qaeda was mostly unknown; Hurricane Katrina wasn't on our radar screens; no one was making the hard choices among medical care, food, and gasoline; and "sub-prime" referred to...