The $16.4 Trillion Question: Can Better Food Create Better Health? The headline number in the McKinsey Health Institute’s latest report, The Future of Healthy Living, is hard to ignore: $16.4 trillion. That is MHI’s estimate of the additional annual global economic...

The 2030 Meal: Where Metabolic Health Meets Affordability The question is no longer simply whether we can grow better food. It is whether the food system can turn it into meals that ordinary households can afford. By 2030, the world is projected to have roughly 8.5...

The False Economy of Big Food Is Getting More Expensive Two years ago, in a ground-breaking report, The False Economy of Big Food, economist Tim Jackson calculated the hidden health cost of Britain's food system at £268 billion a year. He has just updated the numbers....

Metabolism is the fundamental process of life. At KDD, we embrace metabolism as the north star of nutrition, embodied in the Metabolic Matrix (https://metabolicmatrix.info) – but helping the world gain better metabolic health is a cross-sector effort that requires...

The Health of Nations: Why Prevention May Be One of the World’s Best Investments An excellent report, The health of nations: Stronger health, stronger economies, by McKinsey offers a remarkable perspective on the health of natioins. For decades, we have tended to talk...

We keep treating chronic disease as if it were primarily a problem of individual behavior: eat less, exercise more, lose weight. But what if we’ve been asking the wrong question? In an episode of the Nutritious Minds Podcast, Dr. Rachel Gow sits down with Dr. Robert...

The Externality Is the Opportunity How the Metabolic Matrix can help turn the hidden costs of food into measurable health, innovation and economic value For decades, the global food system has been optimized around what companies could most readily measure and...

From Diagnosis to Treatment: Why the Food Industry Must Redesign for Metabolic Health The food and beverage industry does not lack a diagnosis. Its leaders know that the prevailing model produces consequences far beyond the supermarket shelf. They know that many...

Beyond the Injection: GLP‑1 Medicines, Metabolic Health and the Future of Food GLP‑1 therapies can transform treatment. The Gut–Liver–Brain framework can help transform prevention—and ensure that food remains part of the solution. GLP‑1 medicines have changed the...

Obesity Is Not the Whole Problem: Reframing the Crisis Around Metabolic Health For decades, the dominant explanation for obesity has been deceptively simple: people gain weight because they consume more calories than they expend. The prescribed solution follows...