Overall, we are seeing a decline in risky food consumption, and that may be attributable to published media reports of food borne outbreaks and outreach efforts by the public health community.

Consumption of risky foods declined significantly in 2002 compared to 1998. However, in the future there needs to be more targeted outreach to those groups that continue to have high levels of risky food consumption.

A media diet is very much like a real diet . . . mix the different food groups. Nobody says you shouldn't ever eat sugar or ice cream, and nobody says you should eat raw spinach every day. News is one of the most important functions and there's entertainment . . . but the two tend to be blurred together more often.

Once someone tries a real extra virgin -- an adult or a child, anybody with taste buds -- they'll never go back to the fake kind. It's distinctive, complex, the freshest thing you've ever eaten. It makes you realize how rotten the other stuff is, literally rotten. But there has to be a first time. Somehow we have to get those first drops of real extra virgin oil into their mouths, to break them free from the habituation to bad oil, and from the brainwashing of advertising. There has to be some good oil left in the world for people to taste.

I sometimes take leftover food from craft services and give away a bunch of sandwiches on my way home.

Social media is like your own personal brand of junk food; some is just added calories.