Volume 17, No. 7, p879–880, July 2016
Cancer and Society
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Reports of the latest health-foods' benefits transfix the public attention; consumers are attracted by the promise of a supermarket silver bullet able to improve health, reduce disease, and cure all sorts of ailments. These foods serve as a heuristic, mental shortcut that helps to navigate the tidal waves of dietary information—and misinformation—that wash over us. But can a solitary vegetable really produce dramatic health benefits? For starters—no pun intended— it might be difficult to shift pre-existing semi-stable states such as internal gut bacterial or microbiome composition, metabolic setpoint, and level of insulin resistance, with one, simple dietary tweak
