“It does kids no favors, and sets them up for a potential lifetime of poor health and social embarrassment, to excuse them from family meals of real food. Everyone benefits from healthy eating, but it is particularly crucial at the beginning of life.”

American physician and author

Andrew Weil is an American physician and author known for promoting integrative medicine. Born in 1942, he became a prominent voice for combining standard medical care with selected complementary and alternative therapies. He founded the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona College of Medicine in 1994. Weil has also written widely read books on health, healing, nutrition, and ageing, and several of them reached bestseller lists.