Institutional Food

The article argues that institutions often prioritize cost, convenience, or budgets over brain-supportive nutrition. The article leaves open how schools, hospitals, and churches could improve food quality while handling budgets, logistics, and diverse dietary needs. Processed foods, sugar, trans fats, poor-quality oils, refined carbohydrates, and low-quality protein are treated as harmful inputs. School cafeteria food, hospital food, and church food are criticized as institutional environments that fail to nourish health. School food is presented as especially important because schools are intended to nourish children's minds.