By Dr. David L. Katz

I suspect I am known in many circles as “that nutrition guy,” and as such, among the last people you want to hear from just before Thanksgiving! It’s true that the application of food as the best medicine we’ve got to advance the human condition is the focal point of my career. But it’s equally true that I believe in a figurative spoon full of sugar to help the medicine go down…

By Dr. David L. Katz

I really can’t recall the last time I crossed paths with a Twinkie. But this week, the Hostess “snack cake” made from 37 ingredients- including sugar under at least three different names, partially hydrogenated oil (trans fat), and an array of artificial flavorings and colorings- has collided directly into my plans to address another topic, which now must wait until next week. This week, we are stuck chewing on Twinkies…

By Dr. David L. Katz

There is a very familiar way of describing exploitation of the vulnerable: it’s like taking candy from a baby. Can a society that coined this phrase come to accept that the greater exploitation may be handing the candy to the baby in the first place? Living in an age of epidemic childhood obesity and diabetes may be cause to hope so…