Most schools have only a microwave or deep fryer, hardly the tools needed to feed our children real, fresh food.

You are more likely to be overweight if your friend's, friend's friend is overweight than if your parents are overweight.

The very fact that we are having a national conversation about what we should eat, that we are struggling with the question about what the best diet is, is symptomatic of how far we have strayed from the natural conditions that gave rise to our species, from the simple act of eating real, whole, fresh food.

The fork is your most powerful tool to change your health and the planet; food is the most powerful medicine to heal chronic illness.

Yet an estimated 99 percent of people who have a problem with eating gluten don't even know it. They ascribe their ill health or symptoms to something else-not gluten sensitivity, which is 100 percent curable.

We are eating hybridized and genetically modified (GMO) foods full of antibiotics, hormones, pesticides, and additives that were unknown to our immune systems just a generation or two ago. The result? Our immune system becomes unable to recognize friend or foe - to distinguish between foreign molecular invaders we truly need to protect against and the foods we eat or, in some cases, our own cells. In Third World countries where hygiene is poor and infections are common, allergy and autoimmunity are rare.

Chronic disease is a foodborne illness. We ate our way into this mess, and we must eat our way out.