If we as a nation are to get our weight and our health back in order, we need our doctors to stop telling us what to do and actually have real conversations with us.

As any parent knows, the landscape of children's health has changed, often making childhood feel like a pre-existing condition.

In their critics' eyes, producers of sugar-sweetened drinks are acting a lot like the tobacco industry of old: marketing heavily to children, claiming...

The CDC estimates one third of all Americans will develop diabetes and live 15 years fewer than average while losing immeasurable quality of life. But it doesn't have to be this way.

Imagine that there's a killer on the loose in communities across the United States, threatening the health and well-being of 67% of our population. Is this enemy on the FBI's Most Wanted list? Not exactly, because this killer is obesity.

Social policy impacts the rate at which men access the healthcare system. Fewer programs target men as specifically as women. Men are less likely to be insured and less able to qualify for public insurance

The more bored you are, the more likely you are to die prematurely. If boredom kills, then cultivating curiosity is a cure.

I cheered when I learned of First Lady Michelle Obama's new initiative, Let's Move, aimed at the mounting epidemic of childhood obesity. It's a breakthrough for government to address obesity's systemic causes.

Research indicates that lack of sufficient physical activity hasn't a thing to do with why children are obese; carbohydrates are the culprit, the true villain in the midst.

While her heart is in the right place, Michelle may not have considered or been familiar with the delicate balance between preventing obesity and triggering eating disorders.

Innovation in the prevention of disease will be the key factor in realizing affordable healthcare. The paradigm shift is the result of maddening increases in medical insurance over the past decade.

When you give up unhealthy tendencies such as overdoing it on sugar, not getting enough sleep or consuming too much coffee, you can expect to get more energy.

Kids have gotten bigger recently. In fact, according to the CDC, obesity rates have tripled in the past 30 years with nearly 20 percent of children aged 6-11 and 18 percent for those aged 12-19.

Like Big Tobacco, Coca-Cola primarily sells one product--in its case, sugar water--that is linked to a number of diseases. It's under fire for its environmental, human rights, and health record.

Only in the movies would you end up with Meg Ryan if you truly are Sleepless in Seattle. Never mind that you are Tom Hanks. In real life, Tom never gets to make out with Meg because he is sleep deprived.

While I applaud Michelle Obama's initial efforts to take on the childhood obesity epidemic, America needs a comprehensive, well-funded national strategy to combat the problem.

In the eating disorders world, putting any child on a diet is not only unacceptable but appalling.