Food As Medicine

A thINc360 dispatch

Greetings readers! I’m reporting live from the thINc360 conference where the focus is on food as medicine. For my health professional readers, the following link gets you… 5.5 AMA CME category one credits…it’s a learning module to train all health professionals on the basics of food as medicine. (Free with code whc22)

I’ve written before about Obesity as a disease. I’ve been obese. I had one blood test worth of diabetes. I don’t have diabetes as an illness anymore. It is not just because of “eating healthy” for me—yes, it includes semglutide—for me, anyway. This isn’t an easy fix and comes with significant drawbacks.

We developed ultra processed food as Americans to avoid famine. These ultra processed foods account for over 89% of added sugars.

Point 1: Sugar is Poison.

I can see the historical domino sugar factory from my bathroom window.

Before cane sugar was brought to Europe—from slave plantations in Brazil 400 years ago, sweetened was expensive and rare. We had dates and…