The sum is the answer to an addition problem. This plus that lead to the answer. Over the past couple of months, we’ve been taking a look at our inclination to reductionist thinking. We identified reductionism as our attempt to understand complex things by simplifying...

Last month we took a look at our tendency for nutrition reductionism, which we defined as simply looking at food for what individual nutrients it has to offer. For example, bread is a carb, oranges are Vitamin C, milk is calcium, etc. This month, I’d like to expand...

The first vitamin was discovered in 1925. In the following decades, the identification and ability to isolate many of the known essential vitamins and minerals, and their use to prevent and treat nutritional deficiency related diseases, began to be understood. We...