Desperate to shed pounds, Mom, Dad and three grown kids all underwent weight-loss surgery. After the Sheltons dropped a combined 479 lbs., family dinners will never be the same.

While most students only read about Africa, teacher – and tribesman – Joseph Lekuton takes them there.

Peach Friedman’s exercise bulimia left her emaciated and in danger of heart failure-a fate that thousands of other young women could face as they struggle with this debilitating eating disorder.

Less water! No brown eggs! Marion Nestle rewrites the rules for healthy eating.

On those rare nights when she isn’t at the keyboard creating hit music, Alicia Keys retreat to her two bedroom Cape Cod-style house in Queens, kicks off her shoes and lights up the grill. “I love to barbecue,” she says. “But one time I tried to take the last piece of chicken off, and all of a sudden everything caught on fire.”

With abs nearly as famous as his music, LL Cool J ( and his trainer) share the secret to his sculpted physique in a new fitness book.

Who needs modeling? At 50, Iman has a new book on beauty, a daughter in kindergarten – and makes a mean shepherd’s pie for husband David Bowie.