Do you have to be a vegetarian to lose weight? Not exactly, but you do need to watch your intake of red meat, especially the processed kind, such as fast food hamburgers, sausage, ham and salami.

I just ran across an interesting statistic from the University of Michigan. It turns out that more than 25 million Americans could be aging twice as fast as the rest of us.(1)

Could you be one of the statistics?

If the FDA won't go after diet sodas for all the dangerous chemicals they contain, maybe the FTC can take action for false advertising.

There's nothing "diet" about diet sodas. After all, studies have linked them to metabolic syndrome, diabetes, heart problems, and more.

I had an email from a doctor recently who tells me he and his wife are embarking on the dietary recommendations to in my last book “Waist Disposal.” He admits, though, that it’s hard for him to put his hang-ups about saturated fat to one side.

A 2-ounce (dry) serving of spaghetti packs more than 200 calories. And because it’s almost pure carbohydrate, it’ll put your blood sugar through the roof.

We are all programmed to like sugar. New research shows some are genetically much more prone to sugar and food addiction than others. I have observed this in my patients, but now it is becoming clear why some have more trouble kicking the sugar habit than others.

I seem to get a steady stream of folks in my office who want to lose weight. For many of them, it’s about how they look. And for most, they want the weight gone fast.

What if you could lose weight by simply changing how you eat, rather than what you eat?

Do you ever stop to think about what an incredibly complex machine your body is?