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How is the Investment Community Looking at Food System Change?
Tomorrow’s Appetites: What the Bramble 40 Tells Us About the Future of Food The food industry is entering a period of structural change. For decades, competitive advantage was largely built through scale, distribution, brand recognition, convenience, and price. These...
Big Food Dilemas
Big Food Is Not Running Out of Moves. It Is Running Out of Old Moves. The food industry’s crisis cannot be solved by adding protein to yesterday’s products. It requires a fundamentally different approach to food design. A recent Wall Street Journal analysis delivers a...
Access to Healthy Food
One in Three People Cannot Afford a Healthy Diet. That Is a Food-System Failure. The latest United Nations figures show modest progress against hunger—but also expose a deeper global inequity: billions of people remain unable to afford food that supports health. The...
Fructose and Glucose Metabolism – Two Studies
Two Studies. Twenty-Two Years Apart. One Powerful Story About Fructose. Why modern neuroscience is finally explaining what metabolic researchers first observed more than two decades ago. For years, discussions about sugar have often been reduced to a simple equation:...
The Next Competitive Advantage in Food Isn’t Just Healthier Products—It’s Better Metabolic Health
For decades, the food industry has competed on a familiar set of dimensions: taste, convenience, affordability, branding, distribution and innovation. More recently, sustainability and transparency have joined that list. These remain essential, but a more fundamental...
Vitamins Made by Microbes
Vitamins: More Than Nutrients—A Partnership Between You and Your Microbiome Most of us think of vitamins as nutrients that come from food or supplements. We learn that vitamin C comes from citrus fruits, vitamin D from sunlight, and vitamin B12 from animal products....
Activating the WHA 79 Liver Disease Resolution
Activating the WHA Resolution on Liver Disease: From Recognition to Transformation The World Health Assembly's adoption of the resolution "Steatotic liver disease: a missing piece in the global noncommunicable disease response" marks a watershed moment in global...
Food Noise or Information?
Food Noise or Food Information? Reframing How We Think About Obesity A recent opinion piece by Giuseppe Marzio in de Volkskrant argues that if we want to tackle obesity, we need to stop focusing exclusively on individuals and start addressing what the author calls...
The Silent Epidemic in the Liver: Why MASLD Demands Public Attention
There is a growing health crisis unfolding quietly inside millions of people — often without symptoms, pain, or warning signs. It is called MASLD: metabolic dysfunction–associated steatotic liver disease, formerly known as nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). And...
WHA 79 Resolution on Liver Disease
The WHA Liver Disease Resolution: A Landmark Moment — and a Call to Go Further The adoption of the World Health Assembly resolution on steatotic liver disease marks a significant turning point in global health policy. For the first time, liver disease is being...