Andy Bellatti became a card-carrying member of the American Dietetic Association (now Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics – AND) as soon as he completed his training as a registered dietitian.
It wasn’t long before Andy realized something was very wrong.
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David Katz, MD, is a crusader on the front lines of health sanity in an insane culture. Somehow, he’s managed to command attention and respect from the mainstream media, as well as medical and governmental establishments, despite talking sense and not being on the take from industry.
Read MoreMoney coach Dave Ramsey talks about the importance of “feeling money” as it passes through our hands. It’s easy to spend foolishly when we’re just waving credit cards through machines or authorizing direct withdrawals from digital accounts. It’s much harder to make bad money decisions when we have to remove hard currency from our wallets…
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Sonia Faruqi had spent her entire life preparing for a career on Wall Street. She grew up fascinated by the acquisition and accumulation of nice possessions. She studied government and economics at Dartmouth College. And she landed a prize job out of college as a consultant at an investment bank.
She was living her dream.
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One day, Zoe Weil came to the radical conclusion that the main goal of education is to produce kind people who contribute to the wellbeing of the world by tackling huge problems.
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Micaela Karlsen is a lot more optimistic about the future of nutritional science than I usually am. Maybe it’s genetic, and she’s just more upbeat in general. Or maybe – and I fervently hope this is the case – her decade of experience in the world of nutritional research, policy, and public discourse leads to her see a bright future for our increasing understanding of how to eat.
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I recently republished an August 2007 interview with Amie Hamlin, Executive Director of The New York Coalition for Healthy School Food. In that conversation, we covered:
what school cafeterias and lunchrooms really look like
the insane scheduling of school lunch times
what cafeteria acoustics have to do with feeding kids well
why the government is poisoning our kids
how surplus agricultural products like ground beef, cheese, and white potatoes get funneled into school cafeterias
the economic pressures on school food service directors
how to advocate and agitate for healthy food in schools
the amazing public school food policy in Appleton, Wisconsin – and its surprising origins as an intervention for troubled teens
what hope lies on the horizon
Corey Rennell doesn’t do things halfway.
After discovering that what passes for convention wisdom on the topic of nutrition is a contradictory, confusing, reductionist mess, he stopped listening and started looking for himself.
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Robert Ostfeld was collecting Ivy League degrees like some people collect state quarters. With a BA from Penn, an MD from Yale, and a Masters in Epidemiology from Harvard, Robert was well on the way to a prestigious and lucrative career at the pinnacle of conventional medicine.
But he threw that plan away when he decided to become amazing.
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Nelson Campbell is the eldest son of Dr. T. Colin Campbell, co-author of The China Study, and author of Whole, and The Low Carb Fraud. (I helped with those last two.) For the past two years, Nelson has been quietly working on a remarkable project with the potential to change everything for the better.
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