Brad Lamm, BR-I

Teacher & Author, "How to Help the One You Love"
Blog Posts

Joining Dr. Oz is a panel of experts from across the country, representing different medical disciplines, genders, and opinions. Together, they're creating a center for health and wellness information where no topic is off limits.

Tennie McCarty has helped thousands unchain from compulsive overeating and eating disorders of various shapes and sizes. My friend and recent guest of The...

After a little more than 80 years, a staple of far too many junk food enthusiasts has gone to meet its maker. Or rather, its maker is heading to the great beyond. Hostess Brands is filing for...

Added to Diet, Health News on Mon 01/16/2012

Cravings. I'm constantly asked about desires and behaviors when it comes to eating. Science has some new answers for us.
 
Take our craving for salt. It starts early. Some of the...

Added to Nutrition, Family Health, Health News on Fri 01/06/2012

Wonder how we’ve become so heavy? So big and fat that we don’t fit our clothes, our seats or our lives? Look to the guy on your left. By 2030, either you or that person will be obese. We’re dying...

Added to Nutrition, Weight Loss, Diet, Smart Patient, Wellness on Thu 09/29/2011

Though skeptics still abound, the scientific evidence that supports the existence of food addiction keeps stacking up. Sugar is toxic. Certain foods are addictive. Our fat, as a nation (and...

Added to Addiction, Recovery on Mon 04/18/2011

Brad Lamm sends updates as his Just 10 Road Tour rolls through Cleveland. He also gives advice on using Valentine’s Day as an opportunity to focus on yourself.

Added to Weight Loss, Just 10 on Mon 02/14/2011

Brad Lamm reports from his Just 10 Road Tour. Is your relationship with food interrupting your life? Here, Brad discusses food addiction.

Added to Just 10, Food Addiction on Tue 01/25/2011

Brad Lamm reports from his Just 10 Road Tour. His tip: Find calm by creating clutter-free zones in your life.

Added to Just 10 on Fri 01/21/2011

Resolutions? Check.

Reservations? Check.

 

By now, the resolutions have been made, and, if you’re like more than half of Americans, you break them before experiencing the...

Added to Just 10 on Mon 01/17/2011

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Added to Just 10 on Mon 01/10/2011

When Dr. Oz asked me to help him launch the Just 10 challenge this past summer, to help Americans lose ten pounds and take a brilliant first step toward a healthier life, I was thrilled. Why is it...

Added to Just 10 on Fri 12/10/2010

Sklabam!!! In an instant, holiday decorations go up and it’s suddenly that time of year again. Thanksgiving. Christmas. Hanukkah. 2011?!

 

I know and appreciate the...

Added to Addiction, Intervention, Recovery, Holidays on Wed 12/01/2010

If you’ve ever tried to quit smoking or witnessed someone close to you going through it, you know the signs of withdrawal – shaking, crankiness, ups and downs of mania and fatigue. When someone is...

Added to Diet, Addiction, Emotional Eating on Tue 11/16/2010

When I met Stacy by phone just days ago, she was desperate for help, but unsure she could change. See, she had languished in a bucket of bad over many years in addiction. She’d literally been...

Added to Addiction, Recovery on Mon 04/26/2010

April is National Alcohol Awareness Month. Good time to chit-chat on what is in that liquid that vexes sailors and preachers and troubles housewives and high school honor students; all the while,...

Added to Addiction on Wed 03/31/2010

Let me start by saying this is friendly fire. I support your courage in battling for health care reform. But I must offer my perspective as a professional interventionist, former smoker and...

Added to Addiction on Mon 03/22/2010

Work it out? Let it go, release it to the universe, dear. Forgive! Easier said than done. The very act of forgiving can be dusty, dirty work which is a bummer, because nothing frees us for living...

Added to Mental Health, Addiction, Intervention, Emotional Health on Wed 03/10/2010

When I was a boy, a hundred of anything seemed terrific. Unreal. My Great Grandpa Smith turned 100 and I remember admiring his grace (and wrinkles) and wondering, "How in the world did he get that...

Added to Wellness, Illness Management, Oz 100 on Mon 02/15/2010

I stormed a methadone clinic in Idaho to put on notice a doctor who had been misprescribing Xanax for a woman on methadone therapy. His mistake caused an overdose and she was a hair away from...

Added to Intervention, Family Health on Fri 01/29/2010

My client Rob eats like I used to eat. Compulsive binger –not a tummy hunger, but an emotional one. Four heart attacks and 16 years spent trying to reboot his eating routine. A broken career from...

Added to Mental Health, Eating Disorders on Fri 01/22/2010

I met a mom in Houston this past Tuesday whom I’ll call Margaret. “He comes home every three days to shower,” she told me. “Is that a good sign?”

 

“It’s a good sign that you...

Added to Wellness, Addiction, Intervention on Fri 01/15/2010