Once again, Michael Pollan leads the way in this incisive and illuminating short essay that clearly demonstrates how America's current health care crisis is really an outgrowth of our long-standing food and eating crisis.

"The American way of eating has become the elephant in the room in the debate over health care," he writes.

Review: To Cut Global Warming, Swedes Study Their Plates, A series on Global Warming

Sweden is probably the world's leader in studying and implementing policies to reduce green-house gas emissions. It has set goals of eliminating fossil fuel use for electricity by 2020, and eliminating gasoline powered vehicles by 2030. Now, based on a new study showing that greenhouse gas emissions could be reduced by more than 20% if people changed the way they eat, it has issued new food labeling guidelines for specific foods to include the carbon-dioxide content involved in the production of that food.

Seven Sustainable Reads

1. Recipe for America:

   Why Our Food System is Broken and What We Can Do to Fix It
   by Jill Richardson

2. Deeply Rooted:

   Unconventional Farmers in the Age of Agribusiness
   by Lisa M. Hamilton 

3. Food Matters:

   A Guide to Conscious Eating
   by Mark Bittman