This show features world-class cooking expert, Mollie Katzen. Mollie has an amazing 6 million books in print, is listed by the New York Times as one of the best-selling cookbook authors of all time, is a 2007 inductee into the James Beard Cookbook Hall of Fame, and Health Magazine named her one of “The five women who changed the way we eat.” Mollie teamed up with Dr. Walter Willett of the Harvard School of Public Health to write Eat, Drink and Weigh Less. This is a sane, practical, scientific and most importantly – delicious weight loss program. In fact, it’s one of the very best programs currently available.  Mollie explains why fat is essential in our diets, and she shares the 9 turning points of successful weight loss.  Our second guest is Cori Brackett, the writer, director and producer of a documentary called Sweet Misery: A poisoned world, which is about the toxic effects of aspartame, an artificial sweetener commercially known as NutraSweet or Equal. Sweet Misery was born out of Cori’s personal story. She used to be a heavy diet beverage drinker, and she believes her excessive consumption of aspartame led her to develop multiple sclerosis. Cori’s search for answers led her to scientists, doctors, former FDA agents, concerned citizens, and to other people who believed they got sick because of aspartame. All of these interviews are chronicled in her documentary. Anyone who drinks diet beverages with the false hope that it will help to take off weight needs to hear this important story.  And finally, host Karen Bentley provides insight into why happiness and satisfaction with food are essential ingredients for long term weight loss sustainability.

Karen Bentley is the founder and CEO of The Sugar-Free Miracle™ Diet Company which publishes The Sugar-Free Miracle™ Diet Handbook, The Sugar-Free Miracle™ Diet Cookbook collection, related workbooks, a newsletter, and the sugarfreenation blog. Bentley is living proof that a sugar-free weight loss strategy works and is sustainable. She personally lost 130 pounds on The Sugar-Free Miracle™ Diet, and then did the hard part. She kept it off. Because of lifelong weight issues, Bentley has extensive direct experience with many popular weight loss theories and protocols. Even more importantly, her ongoing focus on successful weight practices evolved into a vibrant life of passion and purpose. Over the last 10 years, she’s written four books on weight loss and is one of a handful of sugar-free eating experts in the world today. She’s also an accomplished physical educator, graduating summa cum laude, class valedictorian and winner of the Boston Bouve’ Award from Northeastern University with a degree in physical education.