As I write this, I am flying back to the U.S. from Qatar – the richest country in the world. As such, it provides a vivid demonstration that money can’t buy you health any more than it can buy you love.

In that riveting courtroom scene we all know from the movie, A Few Good Men, Jack Nicholson’s character famously tells us: we can’t handle the truth. That often seems the case with regard to food.

I almost joined Michael Moss, the Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist whose work on addictive junk food recently graced the cover of the paper’s magazine, on MSNBC’s Morning Joe program last week.