What Religion and Tradition Can Teach Us — ‘Instead of using medicine, better fast today.’ — Plutarch I love food, and I love eating. The two are intertwined and have marked some of the best moments of my life. Especially good meals have brought me close to tears. Well executed restaurant dishes abroad live in my memory long…

Hint: It has to do with pleasure — When I was young, my parents worked in the health food industry, and they often brought me along on business trips. Bored senseless, I’d pretend to be an anthropologist and make mental notes of people we met. Among them was a gaunt, mournful-looking species who subsisted, I was told, on…

Why I’m writing a list of 103 Foods: When I changed my diet for health reasons (obesity and Type II diabetes), I spent the first weeks mourning the foods I could no longer eat. What’s the point in being miserable, though? …

A foodie’s poetic lament upon the breakup with carbohydrates for health reasons — Goodbye, honey, love of mine. More mysterious than wine. Sweet as sin, sticky fingers. Even gone, your taste lingers. Bread, my comfort — glum farewell. I get lost inside the smell Of your baking — instant lust. Oh to bite warm crunchy crust. Ice cream — it seems so unfair. You…

Type II diabetes could be reversed for more than two hundred million people. Are we finally ready to act on a proven solution? — I am nothing special. Or I am very special. Depending. Like you, perhaps. I’m an ordinary person. I’m a father, son, husband, brother, and lover of family. I’m an impatient patient. I’m a businessman, which means I’m practically minded and a questioner of things, or so I like to think…