Food for Preventive Care

Lately, everywhere I look, I am surrounded by protein; protein cereal, protein coffee, protein pasta. Protein everything. Consuming a lot of protein daily brings a variety of health benefits, including …

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 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 …

“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 …

“Small disconnected facts, if you take note of them, have a way of becoming connected.” — Walker Percy Multiple sclerosis is a “chronic autoimmune disease of the central nervous system, …

We throw around terms like “lifespan,” “healthspan,” and “longevity” as if they’re interchangeable. They’re not—and this confusion has profound consequences for how we approach aging, both personally and as a …