I think that the American diet is a very large part of the reason we're spending 2.3 trillion dollar per year on health care in this country. 75% of that money goes to treat chronic diseases, preventable chronic diseases, most of those are linked to diet.

[Government] regulation is an imperfect substitute for the accountability, and trust, built into a market in which food producers meet the gaze of eaters and vice versa.

If you can't pronounce it, you shouldn't be eating it.

The big journals and Nobel laureates are the equivalent of Congressional leaders in science journalism.

The things journalists should pay attention to are the issues the political leadership agrees on, rather than to their supposed antagonisms.

Avoid foods you see advertised on television.

You are what what you eat eats.