Fast food is inexpensive, convenient, and it tastes good. I'm all in favor of that. My problem is how heavily processed it is - how full of salt, fat, and sugar it is.

I'd been eating fast food all my life without thinking about it. And the more I learned about the subject, the more intrigued I became.

Most fast food is fried. Fried food tastes great, and people dont seem to care about the fat aspect.

If the market does indeed embody the sum of all human wishes, then the secret ones are just as important as the ones that are openly displayed.

There's been a growing effort to kick soda out of the schools. And governors as different as Arnold Schwarzenegger in California and Mike Huckabee in Arkansas have worked hard to get soda and junk food out of their state schools, which is good.

What we eat has changed more in the last 40 years than in the previous 40,000. The survival of the current food system depends upon widespread ignorance of how it really operates.

Years ago when I got stuck, I'd start twirling my hair. That's not possible anymore. I can't prove the relationship between writing and hair loss, but I think I pulled out a fair amount trying to work on certain sentences.