Daniel Lubetzky

Drew, thanks for including me among your elements!

Salmon and avocados have both been dubbed “superfoods”—but that doesn’t mean the US Food and Drug Administration would agree that they’re “healthy.” Because of their fat content, if the word “healthy” appeared on the packaging of those foods, the company that put it there might end up with one of the agency’s dreaded warning letters. [...]

Women entrepreneurs in the United States will have the opportunity to apply to become one of 10 Tory Burch Foundation Fellows. Fellows will win: 1-year Fellowship, 3-day workshop at their NYC office, $10,000 business education grant, and one Fellow will receive a $100,000 grant investment.

I don’t know if this qualifies me for any kind of a medal- you can decide- but there are two double-entendres in my title, making it, arguably, a quadruple entendre. I humbly suggest that is roughly the literary equivalent of a flying salchow, so I am hoping for some love, at least, from any Russian [...]

Jane Brody published a very sensible reality check about diet in yesterday’s New York Times. That it proved sensible was all but inevitable, as her column was clearly much informed by an interview with the eminently sensible, and extremely knowledgeable Dr. Frank Hu of Harvard, late of the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee, and newly elected [...]

Research shows that the better our reasons for working, the better we work. And it isn’t just Amazon that should take note. By Lindsay McGregor and Neel Doshi   In a matter of days, The New York Times‘s recent exposé of Amazon’s “bruising” workplace delivered a blow to the company’s reputation. Many have joined the [...]

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, September 21, 2015 Obesity rates at or above 30 percent in 42 states for Blacks, 30 states for Latinos, 13 states for Whites. Washington, D.C.—United States adult obesity rates remained mostly steady―but high―this past year, increasing in Kansas, Minnesota, New Mexico, Ohio and Utah and remaining stable in the rest, according [...]

The Labor Day weekend brings into sharp juxtaposition two irrepressible, seasonal forces: one is the culturally sanctioned indulgence in an end-of-summer barbecue blitzkrieg; and the other is the return of our kids to the daily disciplines of a school day. We might add a return to more generally frenetic demands on ourselves as well, as [...]

Kudos to my friend Wes Moore. His thoughts about fostering empathy, about social entrepreneurship, about not being too quick to praise or condemn others, and about the definition of manliness all are spot on how we feel society could be dramatically improved if we adopted these mindsets and ways of life. There’s just something about [...]

BOSTON — SINCE the publication of the federal government’s 1980 Dietary Guidelines, dietary policy has focused on reducing total fat in the American diet — specifically, to no more than 30 percent of a person’s daily calories. This fear of fat has had far-reaching impacts, from consumer preferences to the billions of dollars spent by the [...]