ANDI is not short for Andrew or Andrea.  ANDI is not even a person or a pet.  Rather, ANDI is the scoring system we are now using to rate the “Nutrient Density” of whole foods.  ANDI stands for “Aggregate Nutrient Density Index” and was created to identify foods with the highest nutritional value.  The USDA [...]

Michael Pollan, of Omnivore’s Dilemma fame, has just released another book called Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual that addresses the question of what to eat.  He argues that eating has become “needlessly” complicated and therefore presents the reader with 64 simple rules to remember when hunger strikes (Rule #47 is “Eat when you are hungry, not when you [...]