We Measure Sickness, We Mean Health
The health gap is the most consequential thing nutrition, medicine, and wellness have never agreed how to measure. Naming it is overdue.
Science knows a great deal about health, and almost none of it reaches the person making an actual decision in a form they can use. FRESH is an attempt at the missing piece.
The essays below are the argument in public. What we’re doing is why, and the resources are the tools, data, and papers to check it against. We are not alone in this: the landscape maps 146 organizations working somewhere between a research idea and a person deciding what to do.
The health gap is the most consequential thing nutrition, medicine, and wellness have never agreed how to measure. Naming it is overdue.
Medicine says stop all the time — wherever a validated surrogate lets it. Follow that boundary outward and you reach everyone it does not cover.
Five expert systems score one loaf of whole-wheat bread five different ways, and how we turn that disagreement into a measurement.
Run five expert systems across the whole carbohydrate supply and most foods agree. The contested ones pile up in one aisle, worst where America eats most.
Consumers rarely read a carb food the way the experts do, and almost always read it as worse. Food by food, a map of where the message has to work.
Ask about a claim in this piece. Answers come only from a curated corpus of method and review papers — each one cites the passage it came from, and says so when the corpus cannot answer.
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