FOOD: a four-letter word? It was to us. An emotional, social, political, cultural, and nutritional menace. Add to that a heaping dose of personal bias, ideology, morality, philosophy, even identity, and you've got a plateful of $?#!. If, like us, you've tried everything, it's time to see food for what it truly is: a powerful influencer of a single hormone that impacts health far more than what's on the plate.