No Time for Health Like the Holidays

When it comes to sodium, excess is the American way. Convenience is to blame as much as the kitchen table salt shaker: the most common sodium culprits are not created in our own kitchens but come already packaged from the grocery store or served through a drive-thru window. However, high sodium in our diet, with […]

Food and Energy

Connected at the hip If we Americans really want energy independence, we should take a long hard look at our food system. Believe it or not, second only to automobiles, food consumes the most fossil fuel on a day to day basis — an unbelievable 19% of our total consumption. How is that possible? To answer […]

The Coffee Fix

How is coffee affecting your life?Is coffee part of your daily routine? If it is, you are like millions of Americans, who start their day with a cup – or two or three – of coffee. But even if it’s part of your daily routine, it makes sense to stop and ask a few questions. […]

Salt and Your Health

Are you getting too much of it?The average American consumes two to three times as much salt as she or he should on a daily basis, and only 15% of that comes from the salt shaker. About 10% occurs naturally in foods, and a whopping 75% is put there by the food industry. So what’s […]

Fat Chemistry

A quick history of trans fatsWith all the talk about the nation’s obesity epidemic in recent years, we have been bombarded with information about fat content in food. But it’s not always easy to sort out the so-called “good” fat from the “bad.” In this week’s video, embedded with this blog, I offer a basic […]

Food As Sport

The mixed message surrounding healthy eating habits The emphasis on the obesity epidemic by health care experts has generated widespread media coverage. Obesity across all age groups is rampant in America and has grave consequences for our health and longevity. While this problem continues to be studied and multi disciplinary approaches towards interventions have been […]

Food Safety and Irradiation

The radura label Food-borne safety is front and center once again in America, spawning a boom in home-grown foods and "green" or "organic" alternatives. At the same time, we seem to be losing confidence in an inadequately funded FDA to police food at its source and manage the safety of the increasingly complex global food […]

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