Happy New Year

With each new year millions of Americans resolve to lose weight. But losing weight is really less about resolve, or will, and more about awareness. If you are conscious of the foods you eat, their make up, how you eat them, and their effect on your body then you should have no problem keeping trim.

Overweight in America is really about lack of awareness. Of food. Of self.

It's easy to count calories - and thus easy to sell a diet to the desperate and unsuspecting. It's easy to demonize fats because, on the face of it, they equal, well, fat.

But they don't.

Fats, the right ones, are integral to good health and weight control. The number of calories you eat matter less; the quality more.

So here's to a new year and greater awareness about food and self. Eat fat to lose fat.