Two articles have appeared in the past week that speak to the complex challenges we face in making food purchases, and both  present  good examples of why we desperately need definitive truth-telling about food and health and why our food industry needs our help in order to help us. 

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Continuing on the theme of quality vs. quantity, there was an interesting article in the WSJ this week titled “Eating to Live or Living to Eat?”  

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What do the Gross Domestic Product, U.S. farm policy, and the national focus on obesity all have in common?  They all emphasize quantity over quality.

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Many groups over the course of human history have used mantras to shift awareness and to make connection. The lullabies I sang over and over to my children when they were babies, to soothe them, to ground them, to let them know that it was time to let go into sleep, were a kind of mantra. Many people know of the ancient Tibetan Buddhist mantra that begins, “Om Mani Padme Hum”; the sound “om” is thought to represent the pulsating energy that makes up all life and when sung, connects us to all life.

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It doesn’t seem useful to call foods good or bad. While those are useful words, they are often heavy with morality and there is already too much shame around eating and weight and health.  How many times have you heard a person say, “I was so good, I ate the salad but not the cake!” or, “I was so bad, I ate the whole bag!”?  If you eat good foods, are you “good”?  If you eat bad foods, are you “bad”?  Absolutely not.  But what you eat does have implications for your health, and your health has a great deal to do with how good you feel and with the quality of your life, day after month after year after decade. Read more »

Right on schedule, The Full Yield, Inc. launched in the Boston market in mid-January. Roche Bros. Supermarkets, our first retail partner, has been featuring our Right to Eat™ Store Program and our co-branded line of fresh prepared meals since mid-January and we will begin enrolling participants in our comprehensive program next week with our first health plan partner, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care... Read more »