December 28, 2025 — Yet another careful study of shifts in spending on food and restaurant purchases tells us that yes indeed, GLP-1s will likely reshape markets for food. Food systems already feel it and are beginning to adapt. But truthfully, this is probably just a faint, flickering indication of what’s to come. A Careful Analysis of Food Purchasing […]
November 27, 2025 — In the New York Times, science writer Amanda Schupak wants us to know that we can rationalize our Thanksgiving feast today as a good thing because it’s healthy: “If there’s one day of the year to slip on something elastic-waisted and ignore your typical eating habits, it’s Thanksgiving. The sides! The pies! The leftovers! The […]
August 28, 2025 — New research in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology tells us that walking the talk of a healthy lifestyle for preventing heart disease is not so easy. Perhaps the most striking number from this research relates to dietary recommendations. The American College of Cardiology (ACC) recommends a whole-food plant-based diet for cardiovascular disease […]
July 7, 2025 — FDA Commissioner Marty Makary believes that defining ultra-processed foods is the key to overcoming the health problems these products produce. He recently told the New York Times: “We do not see ultra-processed foods as foods to be banned. We see them as foods to be defined so that markets can compete based on health.” So […]
July 6, 2025 — In the midst of a lot of blather that assigns magical medical properties to food, its downright refreshing to read reflections from Tamar Haspel on the nature of food in Italy – and how people enjoy their food in that country. It is the food environment in Italy, not the food itself, that seems to […]
May 15, 2025 — Who needs 164 pages of nutrition mumbo jumbo? The U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr, yesterday told the House Appropriations Committee he will be releasing a four-page document that sounds a lot like U.S. Dietary Guidelines for Dummies. He says it will be done by August: “We have until January, […]
May 6, 2025 — Coffee and chicken are fueling nutrition headlines this week. “Black coffee improves insulin sensitivity in women,” say headlines sparked by one study. “Eating chicken could shorten your lifespan, raise cancer risk,” according to headlines from another study. Coffee good, chicken bad. Got it. Eating Chicken Isn’t Killing You Please, don’t hit the panic button if […]
April 24, 2025 — Can obesity prevention be as simple as telling people to chew more slowly? That’s what the principal investigator of a new study published in Nutrients, Professor Katsumi Iizuka, says: “These are easy, money-saving measures that can be started right away to help prevent obesity. “Incorporating the proposed eating behavior into school lunches and other programs […]
April 20, 2025 — Morgan Gates sums up his approach to nutrition for the Wall Street Journal succinctly: “I found that if I prioritized protein and half-assed the rest of everything else, it gave me the body I wanted.” Gates is 28-year-old sales rep. He’s a consumer who has clearly absorbed a certain thread of health claims from food […]
February 28, 2025 — Typically, the news we read about adherence to dietary advice is a little depressing. We read report after report saying our diets are terrible. But here is a bright spot. For some time now, doctors – especially pediatricians – have been telling us: “Juice is not healthy.” Whole fruit is better. Surprisingly, people seem to […]
