We should measure our success in life by the good deeds we have done and the people whose lives we have touched instead of measuring it by the goods we possess.

How can we understand our relationship with excess? How do we continue to believe that more money or cars or shoes or food or sex will make us happy? Why are we the only animal that can be made ill by our appetites?

Three research studies from the last few years have explored an interesting tool that could potentially be used to combat the obesity epidemic in our culture.

QUESTION Dear Irene, A friend of mine spends a lot of money on gifts even when it's not a special occasion. She is not wealthy and her husband recen...

There are many who say we were not the savers grandparents were. There is truth to that. But we were also earners and innovators and for the most part good citizens.

The more you demean yourself for having a 'food mistake' the more you fuel having a binge. One binge fuels the next and all of a sudden you can't fit in your Inauguration dress.