Our children's health and well-being are dependent on our commitment to promoting food access and good eating habits at home, at school and in the community.

The Middle East is ailing. The malady stems from pervasive violence, shortages of food, water and educational opportunities, discrimination against women and - the most virulent cause of all - the absence of freedom.

If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?

I was always on the go, and thought I was too busy to develop something like this. I thought at the time that diabetes went along with bad habits, but I was the last one in my family to eat junk food.

Food has always brought me comfort and the bingeing is triggered when I'm in a space that is not positive.