You’ve probably heard the conflicting information about body size and its implications for health. Some say that a larger size is, by...

“What is your goal? What is it that you want to achieve with your book?” These are some of the questions coming up in the book...

How do I describe my relationship with Easter candy? Well, it’s complicated. As a young child, I loved it – chocolate bunnies (though my...

Note: Denis Cotter has an amazing restaurant called Café Paradiso in Cork, Ireland, which I highly recommend if you’re ever in the area....

I used to think that I had to wait for my life to really start until I was thin – wait to be loveable, wait to do the things I wanted,...

Have you ever heard of the “Princess Syndrome”? Even if not by that name, you might be familiar with the fact that many little girls go...

I had no idea. That’s the theme of National Eating Disorder Awareness Week, which starts today. It also describes my reaction when I...

As an adolescent, my parents closely observed what I ate, concerned as they were about my growing weight. Nor were they the only ones....

I know that many diets have been popular over the years, but looking at some of the examples in a recent article on CNN.com, I was...

Growing up, I remember learning that the primary responses to stress were “fight or flight”, and possibly “freeze”, but those always...