Food in Traditional Medicine

When the System Becomes Overloaded When biological signals repeatedly fail to align with expectations, the consequences do not appear all at once. They emerge gradually as the body attempts to …

Segment 2: The Grammar of Food Structure, Grammar, and the Meaning of Food The vocabulary is identical. The meaning is not. Consider two meals that appear nutritionally similar on paper. …

“If a man does not know to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.” — Seneca If you listen long enough to the current conversation about food and health, …

“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.” – J.R.R. Tolkien (The Hobbit) Understanding Food As Information (FAI) requires …

“It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.”  —  Marcus Aurelius. Over the last several decades, chronic diseases like Type II …

“One of the useful things about age is realizing conventional wisdom is often simply inertia with a candy coating of conformity.”  — Anna Quindlen No doubt you have heard that …

“You can ignore reality, but you can’t ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.” ―Ayn Rand Recently, in both the UK and the US, the latest dietary guidelines opted not to …

“Hush little baby, don’t say a word And never mind that noise you heard It’s just the beasts under your bed In your closet, in your head…” — Metallica, Enter …

“In the land of the blind, the snake oil salesman is king.” ~ Anonymous Often in this column, we examine a particular study in depth to separate the wheat from …

Sweet dreams are made of this,  Who am I to disagree?” — The Eurythmics Ever since people have been eating and dreaming, there has been a perceived connection between what …