RICHMOND, Va. -- More than 15 years have passed since David Kessler first worked to regulate the tobacco industry as a Food and Drug Administration co...

To break the cycle of conditioned hypereating we must redirect our automatic response to the kinds of foods that cause us to overeat.

The rest of us have to subsidize food industry profits through covering the health care costs of the resulting health problems.

As head of the Food and Drug Administration, Dr. David A. Kessler served two presidents and battled Congress and Big Tobacco. But the Harvard-educated...

In The End of Overeating, Dr. Kessler explains how humans, much like Pavlov's dogs, become hardwired to anticipate foods with fat, sugar, and salt. So, how can we change the way we think about food?

Whether it's food or drugs or stress or being treated unfairly or even information overload, we need to figure out exactly what is driving us.