People don't eat nutrients, they eat foods, and foods can behave very differently than the nutrients they contain.

Stop eating before you're full.

Corn is the hero of its own story, and though we humans played a crucial supporting role in its rise to world domination, it would be wrong to suggest we have been calling the shots, or acting always in our own best interests. Indeed, there is every reason to believe that corn has succeeded in domesticating us.

For a product to carry a health claim on its package, it must first have a package, so right off the bat it's more likely to be processed rather than a whole food.

It's been a mystery to me and a disappointment why conversation about health care reform hasn't turned more attention to the subject of food.

It has become much harder, in the past century, to tell where the garden leaves off and pure nature begins.

In addition to contributing to erosion, pollution, food poisoning, and the dead zone, corn requires huge amounts of fossil fuel - it takes a half gallon of fossil fuel to produce a bushel of corn.