
Q&A with Dr. Weil: New Year's Resolution—Best Food to Lose?
Resolved to make 2016 a healthy year? Take a look at the one thing Dr. Andrew Weil recommends removing from your diet—and the one thing he recommends adding—for tip-top health.
Andrew Weil was born in Philadelphia in 1942, received an A.B. degree in biology (botany) from Harvard in 1964 and an M.D. from Harvard Medical School in 1968. After completing a medical internship at Mt. Zion Hospital in San Francisco, he worked a year with the National Institute of Mental Health, then wrote his first book, The Natural Mind. From 1971–75, as a Fellow of the Institute of Current World Affairs, Dr. Weil traveled widely in North and South America and Africa collecting information on drug use in other cultures, medicinal plants, and alternative methods of treating disease. From 1971–84 he was on the research staff of the Harvard Botanical Museum and conducted investigations of medicinal and psychoactive plants.
Dr. Weil is the founder and Director of the University of Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine, where he also holds the Lovell-Jones Endowed Chair in Integrative Rheumatology and is Clinical Professor of Medicine and Professor of Public Health. The Center is the leading effort in the world to develop a comprehensive curriculum in integrative medicine. Graduates serve as directors of integrative medicine programs throughout the United States. Through its Fellowship and Integrative Medicine in Residency curricula, the Center is now training doctors and nurse practitioners around the world.
Dr. Weil is the editorial director of the popular website Dr. Weil.com (www.drweil.com) and is the founder and Chairman of the Weil Foundation. Dr. Weil is also the founder and co-Chairman of Healthy Lifestyle Brands and is a founder and co-owner of the growing group of True Food Kitchen restaurants. He is the author of many scientific and popular articles and of 14 books, the latest release being the cookbook Fast Food, Good Food.
Resolved to make 2016 a healthy year? Take a look at the one thing Dr. Andrew Weil recommends removing from your diet—and the one thing he recommends adding—for tip-top health.
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Editor’s Note: Andrew Weil, M.D. is a world-renowned leader, best-selling author, and pioneer in the field of integrative medicine. This March you have a special opportunity to hear Dr. Weil in person at the Chopra Center’s signature workshop Journey into Healing: What Are You Hungry For? where he will be a keynote speaker and guest lecturer.
In my book Spontaneous Happiness, I write about lifestyle practices that can help people achieve and maintain happy lives. Bear in mind that by “happy,” I am not referring to endless bliss. Despite what many in the media proclaim these days, such a state is neither achievable nor desirable. Instead, these practices are designed to help most people reach and maintain a state of contentment and serenity. From there, a person can still experience appropriate emotional highs and lows, but knows that he or she will soon return to a pleasant state that might be termed emotional sea level.