When did you decide you wanted to be a physician specializing in nutrition?
When I was 16, my father was dying from cancer. My mother found an alternative medical clinic for cancer patients, and since she had to run the family business, I stayed there with him. I witnessed amazing cancer reversals during my stay, and decided to make this medicine my life's work.

Which foods are misconceived as being unhealthy?
Coconut and palm oils. Meats that have been raised organically, especially grass-fed animals, do not have the dangerous fats that meats that have been injected with hormones and antibiotics. They do have very important levels of proteins, vitamins and healthy oils not found other places.

If you were to teach us all one good rule about healthy eating what would it be?
Sugar is poison.

If there was one food you could ban from our diets, what would it be?
White sugar and flour

Can vitamins replace the nutrients we are supposed to get from food?
In many cases vitamins are the only way to get the nutrients we need to remain healthy. Our food supply has been so tampered with that the foods we put on our tables are nutrient-free.

What are the most dangerous eating habits common among Americans?
We, as Americans, eat a diet made up of processed foods that contain white flour, sugar and trans fats.

If I want to lose weight, should I take diet pills?
No. Diet pills just put off the inevitable--regaining the weight and then some.

If I am on a diet, what should I eat? What should I avoid?
Eat fish, lean organic chicken, organic meats and green vegetables.
Avoid white processed foods--sugar, flour, pasta, cakes, cookies, puddings, candy, ice cream, custards.

What should I eat to boost my energy level?
Proteins will boost your energy level. Simple carbohydrates like sugars and starches will rob you of energy.

What are the latest trends in the field of nutrition and dietetics?
Low glycemic eating is the healthy trend.

Have you noticed a trend in the culinary field towards better nutrition? How are restaurant menus evolving?
Restaurants seem to think that cooking with healthy fats is important. It is important as long as the fats are not hydrogenated during cooking. Seemingly healthy fats like canola and sunflower oils hydrogenate at 150 degrees and are not suitable for cooking. Restaurants are also substituting whole grains for white grains. I salute that.

When you are dining out, what meal choices do you gravitate towards?
Fish and organic greens

What are your beverages of choice?
Water

How do you feel about genetically modified foods?
I consider them dangerous.

What defines your personal style as a nutritionist?
I practice anti-aging nutritional medicine. I believe in eating a "clean diet" and replacing in the body those things we lose as we age.

You teach a lot to your clients about nutrition, what have you learned from them?
Everything! Nutrition is not an exacting field. Because we are each biologically individual, every patient is a new challenge. Patients let me know what works and what doesn't work. They are my teachers.