Ian K. Smith, M.D. is the #1 bestselling author of The Fat Smash Diet and Extreme Fat Smash Diet. He is the diet expert on VH1’s “Celebrity Fit Club”, a medical contributor to many network news programs such as ABC’s “The View” and “The CBS Early Show”, and the creator of... more

Ian K. Smith, M.D. is a medical contributor to ABC’s The View, a contributing editor at Men’s Health, and a diet expert on VH1’s Celebrity Fit Club. more

Judith S. Beck, Ph.D., is the director of the Beck Institute for Cognitive Therapy and Research and Clinical Associate Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania. Her father, Aaron T. Beck, M.D., is the founder of Cognitive Therapy and one of... more

PAMELA PEEKE, M.D., M.P.H., clinical assistant professor of medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and adjunct senior research fellow at the National Institute of Health, is a regular contributor to Good Housekeeping and is frequently quoted in magazines... more

PAMELA PEEKE, M.D., M.P.H., clinical assistant professor of medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and adjunct senior research fellow at the National Institute of Health, is a regular contributor to Good Housekeeping and is frequently quoted in magazines... more

LILIAS FOLAN, known as the “First Lady of Yoga” since her groundbreaking 1972 Yoga series Lilias! Yoga and You, has been regarded as America’s most knowledgeable and respected yoga guru. Through her television shows, books, audiobooks, videos, workshops, and seminars,... more

Gina Kolata is a science reporter for The New York Times and is the author of, most recently, Flu (FSG, 1999). She lives in Princeton, New Jersey. more

Robert C. Atkins, M.D., was the founder and medical chair of The Atkins Center for Complementary Medicine in New York City. A 1951 graduate of the University of Michigan, Dr. Atkins received his medical degree from Cornell University Medical School in 1955, and went on to... more

Susan Nolen-Hoeksema, Ph.D. is a professor of psychology at Yale University. She has been conducting research on women’s mental health for twenty years. She and her research have been profiles on the Today Show, USA Today, and in The New York Times. The former director of... more

John Gray’s book Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus is the bestselling relationship book of all time. A Certified Family Therapist, Gray is also the author of eleven other bestselling self-help books including Mars and Venus Starting Over and Children Are from Heaven.... more