What an extraordinary achievement for a civilization: to have developed the one diet that reliably makes its people sick!

While it is true that many people simply can't afford to pay more for food, either in money or time or both, many more of us can. After all, just in the last decade or two we've somehow found the time in the day to spend several hours on the internet and the money in the budget not only to pay for broadband service, but to cover a second phone bill and a new monthly bill for television, formerly free. For the majority of Americans, spending more for better food is less a matter of ability than priority. p.187

Eat foods made from ingredients that you can picture in their raw state or growing in nature.

When chickens get to live like chickens, they'll taste like chickens, too.

A growing body of research suggests that many of the health problems associated with eating beef are really problems with corn-fed beef.

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

Eating's not a bad way to get to know a place.