Turns out my hour with Emily Rooney yesterday was only about 20 minutes, which was always the plan but which I had not fully perceived.

No matter, it was great to be there, a great opportunity and a pleasing conversation. Here's a link to the segment.

In my focused world, the release of Ashley Gearhardt's (et. al) study advancing the evidence for food addiction has been a welcome thunderbolt from several directions. Unreservedly.

But nothing is perfect, and I must quarrel with the report's closing words:

Quite appropriately, stories have been cascading out of the media since April 4, when researcher Ashley Gearhardt, a post-doc at Yale, and her colleagues released a study that correlates people who scored high on a food-addiction questionaire they developed with increased brain activity when given food cues.

Last week, it was her TV show. This week, on Thursday 4/14, I'll be on Emily Rooney's radio show, noon to 1, WGBH, 89.3 FM.

If you're outside Boston and want to listen, you can go to a wgbh.org and follow the "On Now:" prompt at the top of the page.

Please do listen, and call in if you feel moved to.

I'm writing this one, briefly, I hope, because I believe strongly is sharing good news, and in spreading praise when it is warranted.

About 10 days ago, my son knocked over a cup of coffee into my laptop. More than $2 grand, less than a year old, equipped with an extended warranty useless to the occasion, and ruined.

I did what you're supposed to: I powered down and turned it over, even trying to dry it with a hair dryer. But, ruined it was.

I took it into the Apple Store and got the expected news: $1,250, flat, to repair it.

This website, Sociological Images, says that this campaign that purports to fight childhood obesity is shaming to fat kids.

I think they have it wrong.

What I see are short statements by four fat kids who are telling the truth about what it's like to be fat.

It is probably impossible to live a black-and-white life, though certainly addicts like myself will try. The only route to comfortable success is to contemplate the grays and adjust when necessary.

That comes up for me today as I continue a discussion of how our family chooses its protein. To many, that might sound like liberal-sissy stuff, but we are convinced of the essential values of nutrition and responsible consumerism, and wish more people were.

We had the first conversation at our house last night contemplating a different family approach to eating protein. It arose from a couple of threads that have been entwining in my mind for a while: the processed nature of soy protein and the environmental values of grass-fed animals and getting it locally.

I was Emily Rooney's guest on "Greater Boston" on Tuesday night. It was a nice thrill, since Georgie and I have been fans of her show, especially the Friday "Beat the Press" segment.

It is very easy to get caught up in the excitement of being seen, especially by an entity with the broad reach of a national television network, but it helps me to get back, as quickly as possible, to the real issue, which is food addiction.

The core of my message, in "Fat Boy Thin Man" and on this blog, is that food addiction is real and that both for individuals and for all of us collectively, important changes will necessarily follow once we understand.