Symposia believes almost nothing about claims of the therapeutic powers of food; such hokum. Thus today we learn in the "news" that calcium and Vitamin D have negligible impact on bone loss. And the FDA grappling with percentages of what constitutes whole grain; 10?, 100? What's the difference? My Grandmother Adams died at 100 and never saw a whole grain or a vegetable that she liked.

I loved David Hockney's interview in TIME; at 68 he smokes because "death awaits us all" and the modern world is all about little Esther with asthma.