What is food?

It may seem like a rather obvious question, but the nature of food is one of those perplexing issues that seems to drive so much debate and controversy. Over the last 100 years society has been led to believe that apart from supplying basic energy, food has very little bearing on physical and mental health.   During this time we have seen farm-fresh whole foods become gradually displaced with manufactured versions of the same, while at the same time, bearing witness to previously rare diseases such as heart disease and cancer become the first and second causes of death Please login or register to see the full article