Avoid food products with more than five ingredients; with ingredients you can't pronounce.

In general, science journalism concerns itself with what has been published in a handful of peer-reviewed journals - Nature, Cell, The New England Journal of Medicine - which set the agenda.

I work very hard on finding good characters who can explain things to me, and I use them to help tell the story. I organize my pieces not just around people but around animals and plants, energy flows, the path that carbon takes through the food system.

Essentially, we have a system where wealthy farmers feed the poor crap and poor farmers feed the wealthy high-quality food.

Eat only until you're 4/5 full. An ancient Japanese injunction.

Without the potatoe, the balance of European power might never have tilted north

Don't eat breakfast cereals that change the color of your milk.