First let’s define our terms…
“Health is not a deliverable commodity and care does not come out of a system.” – Ivan Illich
I fall back on this quote often because it reminds me of two important concepts:
Health depends on individuals taking responsibility for their own behavior.
Care depends on a relationship between two people (doctor and patient in this [...]

I remember growing up with the old Food Pyramid. It seemed so obvious to eat more pasta and skip the olive oil. How wrong they were!
In 2004 I wrote a short review of Food Pyramids past, present, and future based on an article by Willett and Stampfer in Scientific American.
Five years later I’ve updated and posted it [...]

I recently recorded this lecture and published it as a podcast. It sumarizes the 2006 evidence-based review in the journal Chest.