When you eat mindfully, by paying attention to what you eat, you get more pleasure with fewer calories.
Lifestyle changes may help reduce risk, but no study has shown that lifestyle changes alone can eliminate the risk of breast cancer, especially in those carrying the BRCA mutation.
Sometimes, people do the darkest acts in the name of helping protect their loved ones.
How you eat is as important as what you eat. If I eat mindlessly while watching television, I get all of the calories and none of the pleasure. Instead, if I eat mindfully, paying attention and savoring what I'm eating, smaller portions of food can be exquisitely satisfying.
To the degree you eat less of the bad carbs and fats and enough of the good carbs and fats, you're likely to look better, feel better, lose weight and gain health.
When it's good business to make healthier food, then it becomes sustainable.
Too much power in any institution tends to stifle innovation.
All divisions are man-made.
While the digital age has done so much to improve our world, it has dramatically changed our social structure, often further isolating us from each other.
Whether you're six or sixty, if you go on a diet and lifestyle program and feel constrained, you're likely to go off it sooner or later. Offering a spectrum of choices is much more effective; then, you feel free and empowered.
If you indulge yourself one day, you can eat more healthfully the next. To the degree you move in a healthful direction on the food spectrum, you're likely to feel better, lose weight, and gain health.
In a global economy, the Bush doctrine of unilateralism - going it alone - has been disastrous. It's becoming increasingly clear that we're all in this together. Your happiness is my happiness, your suffering is my suffering, your recession is my recession.
In an era in which war and terrorism - at home and abroad - are often based on racial, religious and ethnic differences, rediscovering the wisdom of love and compassion may help us increase our survival at a time when an increasingly divided country and world so badly need it.
An educated patient is empowered; thus, more likely to become healthy.
Nowhere is the power of the Internet for improving people's lives more evident than in health care.
Anything that takes you out of the context of being separate is healing. Anything that takes you out of the context of separateness is intimacy.