The End of Craving: Recovering the Lost Wisdom of Eating Well

by Mark Schatzker

So why not go whole hog? Ban everything in the food system that is unhealthy. Make all those additives that require a graduate degree in food science to pronounce illegal. Pass a bill that decrees that henceforth ice cream shall actually be ice cream. Force the food companies to sell authentic food and not some engineered facsimile. And can we rethink the now-ancient practice of enriching processed carbs? It has been nearly a century since pellagra was wiped out. Are we still running dangerously low on niacin, riboflavin, and thiamin?I Some countries—wealthy, advanced, science-forward nations that include Denmark, Finland, France, Japan, Korea, Spain, and Sweden (and Italy, obviously)—do not fortify their flour with vitamins. Amazingly, they do not face epidemics of pellagra every spring. They do, however, have lower rates of adult and child obesity.