“Goal clout” is an important concept to help explain why it’s been so hard for us busy women to keep up our desired behavioral goals (move more, eat better, meditate, etc.) and how we can learn to maintain them for life. Want this new ally? I created the goal clout...

My colleagues and I at the University of Michigan recently published an eye-opening study on midlife women.  It showed that the health benefits we’ve been taught to strive to achieve through exercising might not be powerful enough to deliver the health outcomes we...

Many of us treat our bodies similar to how Cinderella was treated by her stepmother. We consider our bodies to be our nemesis.  We ignore them –we do anything to avoid acknowledging them. Wikipedia says “The word “cinderella” has, by analogy, come to mean one whose...

There's a great new study out about body image and eating among women. This study, conducted by  innovative research groups that I admire, looked at whether influencing women's body image would impact their successful adoption of eating strategies known to help...