Tag Archives: Jonathan Steffen Sight and Life

Diets for a Complex World: The search for wholeness

At the beginning of 2019, the EAT–Lancet Commission published Food in the Anthropocene, a consideration of healthy diets from sustainable food systems.1 The authors observed that “A healthy diet should optimize health, defined broadly as being a state of complete … Read the full article

Appropriate Eating: The Mediterranean Diet in Homer’s Odyssey

“There is no boon in life more sweet, I say, than when a summer joy holds all the realm, and banqueters sit listening to a harper in a great hall, by rows of tables heaped with bread and roast meat, … Read the full article

Landmark Global Nutrition Study Launched

Good Nutrition: Perspectives for the 21st century During 2014 and 2015, we had the privilege to work on Good Nutrition: Perspectives for the 21st century. Our work encompassed concept development, writing and editing, design and project management in support of … Read the full article

Why Is Nutrition So Confusing?

  Too much on your plate? Or too little? Or too much of the wrong stuff? In an interview which I conducted recently for Sight and Life magazine, the influential thinker Gary Taubes gives us his take on why the … Read the full article