

Sugar and cold turkey
On March 12, David Leonhardt wrote a useful and informative article in the New York Times titled "Big Sugar Versus Your Body." It described his family's attempt to remove hidden sources of sugar from their food choices. The goal was to preserve the sugary pleasure of certain foods (such as ice cream and chocolate, which he loved) but to be on the lookout for hidden added sugar (mostly found in processed foods). Leonhardt mentioned in his column that "Working with experts an


Your body is talking to you. Yes, you
Did you know that your body talks to you? Well, it does: and as a matter of fact, it never shuts up! It's not entirely our fault if we're blind to internal messages from the body: in English "body" and "mind" are two separate words, implying two separate things. But this linguistic anomaly fails to describe the elegant processes taking place within a human body. A much better way to think about this subject would be to employ the concept of "bodymind," i.e., the body tha