Is Sugar Toxic?

Gary Taubes is a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation independent investigator in health policy and the author of “Why We Get Fat.” He has been studying diet and health for a very long time. In this lengthy-but-very-readable article in the New York Times, he examines the...

How to Save a Trillion Bucks

Food writer Mark Bittman gets it. If we want to save our economy, we need to reduce preventable illness. It’s that simple, and that hard. He writes: In the scheme of things, saving the 38 billion bucks that Congress seems poised to agree upon is not a big deal....

Legacy Health lowers costs while saving lives

We Can Do Better endorses the “Triple Aim,” which is to: improve the health of a defined population; reduce or contain per capita costs; and to improve the experience of users of the system. Legacy has taken some key steps that help on all three counts....