Recently, I came across this startling statistic. Each day, we make an average of 217 food-related decisions. Is it any surprise we so often make poor choices about what we eat?

I can't ever remember living through such poisonously polarized times: the left and the right, immigrants and their antagonists, warring religions, and perhaps above all, the haves, who have ever more, and the have nots, who have ever less. As William Yeats put it, "Things fall apart, the centre cannot hold, mere anarchy is loosed upon the world." Doesn't it increasingly feel that way?