On Thanksgiving: 21 Simple Ways to Be Healthy
My dad always told me growing up that without health, you got nothing. So you better be damn grateful for every condition-free day. I am. Every Thanksgiving, I thank God for my health because it is one of three things for which I am most grateful (the other two being my family and a free country). I was please to see this Beliefnet gallery that my editor Holly Le

6 Ways to Not Stuff Yourself This Thanksgiving
Two years ago I did a bit of research on how to eat responsibly at Thanksgiving thanks to a writing assignment for the Health Journal of "Ladies' Home Journal." After interviewing Ruth Frechman, Spokesperson for the American Dietetic Association, and Joy Bauer of Joy Bauer Nutrition, here's what I wrote: Did the food coma

How You Know Your Turkey Is Done
This great cartoon comes from Susan Schechter, who writes the wonderful blog, "If You're Going Through Hell, Keep Going." Read this post »

My Sugar Addiction Story: How I Stopped Eating Sugar
So much of our mood has to do with diet. I really recognize that in my son, David. You give him an ounce too much of corn syrup, and he is one whacked-out kid. Back when I read "Potatoes Not Prozac," I vowed to keep simple carbohydrates out of my diet. I'm still not there, but am making progress.  A fellow blogger, Karly Randolph

Video: The Eating Season
I call the 61 days between Halloween and New Year's "the eating season," because the temptation to snack on all kinds of crap is intrusive this time of year, with boxes of Belgian chocolate coming in with every client who has paid his bill, cocktail parties with egg-nog and Yule logs, enough pumpkin pie to make you feel like a pumpkin, and trays of Christmas cookies everywhere you turn. If your brain is as sensitive as mine--sweets turbo charge the brain and then zap it of all its cognitive powers--you, too, have to pull out ever trick of discipline known to man, more even than is used to train those dogs at the airport who can smell pot on a passenger. Remember this dur