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 …
