“If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about the answers.” — Thomas Pynchon As noted in the recent column, The MAHA Report Card, recent …
“It is a taleTold by an idiot, full of sound and fury,Signifying nothing.”— William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act V, Scene V The new guidelines often, if not precisely, speak about “highly …
Over the past year, initiatives like MAHA and renewed discussions around the Dietary Guidelines for Americans have signaled something important: a growing recognition that our dominant approach to food and …
“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 …
“If you truly get in touch with a piece of carrot, you get in touch with the soil, the rain, the sunshine. You get in touch with Mother Earth and …
“Avoiding both extremes, the Tathagata has realized the Middle Path: It gives vision, it gives knowledge, and it leads to calm, to insight, to enlightenment, and to Nirvana.” — The …
“Let things taste the way they are.” ― Alice Waters, chef, author, and owner of Chez Panisse We’ve all seen the images: overweight kids addicted to video games 24/7, chubby …
“The time has come,” the Walrus said, “To talk of many things: Of shoes — and ships — and sealing-wax — Of cabbages — and kings — And why the …
What are Ultra-processed Foods? Ultra-processed food (UPFs) and “drink products are packaged formulations resulting from several sequences of industrial processes.” 28.32 These processes involve “altering the natural state of food …
