The Mediterranean diet is rich in fruits and vegetables while low in sodium. It is also enriched with olive oil, high in antioxidants as well as monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats.

We can change the expression of more than 70 percent of the genes that have a direct bearing on our health and longevity.

Gluten is this Generation's Tobacco

Food is medicine. We can actually change our gene expressions with the foods we eat.

Two forms of fat that are vitally important for brain health are cholesterol and saturated fat.

We may all be sensitive to gluten from a neurological standpoint.

In general, the public knowledge base and thus decision-making behaviors are far more influenced by advertisement than with current science.

Even slight elevations in blood sugar have been shown to increase the risk of Alzheimer's disease.

It may seem draconian, but the best recommendation I can make is to completely avoid grains.

Dementia is our most-feared illness, more than heart disease or cancer.

Bad things happen. And the human brain is especially adept at making sure that we keep track of these events. This is an adaptive mechanism important for survival.

If you're hungry enough...even poison tastes good.

The time has come to return integrity, performance and dignity to New York and make it the Empire State once again.

Hope for the best, expect the worst.

I'm not saying my mother-in-law is fat - because she is of reasonable size, and I care about her and her self-image.

President Obama finally has his own personal Twitter account. Even John McCain said, 'Welcome to the Internet, grandpa.'

I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse.

I will not be labelled as average.

The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear.

Seems like people could behave themselves without making a calculation regarding how likely or unlikely they are to kill other people.

All travelers to wild places will have felt some version of this, a brief blazing perception of the world's disinterest. In small measures it exhilarates. But in full form it annihilates.