Food as Medicine and Policy

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. …

In this week’s Study Spotlight, and over the next three columns, I’ll be sharing the background behind my latest book,  Dinner with God: Understanding The Language of Food, and why …

“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 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 …

“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 …

“Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.” – Hippocrates One aspect of understanding Food as Information (FAI) that fundamentally moves it beyond …

“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 …

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”— Leo Tolstoy After a year of much ballyhoo, we kick off the 2026 Study Spotlight with a …