There's an awful lot about our society that is at odds with the basic message of "don't smoke, be active, eat a healthy diet, and by the way control ….

Epidemic obesity is an enormous problem. It's a pendulum that's swung too far. We have to swing it back. So it should come as no surprise that soluti….

My view of chronic disease prevention of fighting epidemic obesity and diabetes, of turning the tide, is that it is the job of professionals to pave ….

We are creatures. We have a link with a native habitat just like every other species. Throughout most of human history, physical activity was unavoid….

Balanced, sensible nutrition: eat food, not too much, mostly plants, a healthy diet ala Michael Pollan, modern physical activity on a daily basis, mo….

I naturally gravitate toward the big picture which isn't necessarily advantageous when you go on to a career in research because successful researche….

We have literature indicating that overwhelmingly, health is influenced by a very short list of modifiable behaviors topped by three: tobacco use, ph….

We are facing a flood tide of factors into our daily lives and the lives of our children that conspire against weight control, and for that matter, h….

There is one thing that very reliably try to trumps the food supply and that is food demand. At the end of the day, the business of business is busin….

I think basic disease care access and basic access to health care is a human right. If we need a constitutional amendment to put it in the Bill of Ri….

When I went to medical school, I was taught about two basic kinds of diabetes: juvenile onset and adult onset. From the time I did my training in med….

We don't control everything. There are genetic influences. There are environmental exposures we don't control. I cannot guarantee anyone I counsel th….

We have a society that monumentally conspires against the pursuit of health. We have wave after wave of labor-saving technology that says don't ever ….

What we need to do now is recognize that it is the sum total of human ingenuity that is responsible for the epidemics of chronic disease. Throughout ….

The metaphor I routinely use is polar bears in the Sahara desert. You take creatures adapted to the cold and put them in the heat, the very traits th….

Color, rather than shape, is more closely related to emotion..

My view is, in between environmental determinism and personal responsibility, we say, "where there's a will there's a way." It's not true. You really….