I have no scientific training at all. I was an English major in school. Everything I learned about science I've learned as a journalist would, finding out what I needed to know.

The interesting thing I learned was that if you're really concerned about your health, the best decisions for your health turn out to be the best decisions for the farmers and the best decisions for the environment-and that there is no contradiction there.

The problem is that we let special-occasion food become everyday food. That goes for soda and french fries.

Time is the missing ingredient in our recipes-and in our lives.

We are what we eat, it is often said, but of course that's only part of the story. We are what what we eat eats too.

Avoid food products containing ingredients that a third-grader cannot pronounce.

The human animal is adapted to, and apparently can thrive on, an extraordinary range of different diets, but the Western diet, however you define it, does not seem to be one of them.