Spotlight on Health & Diet: Corporatization, Food, and Wellness

In this JOSHA Spotlight, we bring together six articles that examine how health is shaped not only by biology and personal choice, but also by profit structures, food systems, everyday environments, and long-term risk exposure. The collection explores the corporatization of medicine and its uneven effects on care quality, the promises and failures of profit-driven healthcare, and the contested health impacts of ultraprocessed foods. It also considers why bread may be experienced differently across food cultures, how brief contact with nature can restore attention, and how major cardiovascular risk factors influence lifetime health trajectories worldwide. Together, these contributions show that wellness is deeply embedded in policy, markets, diet, behavior, and environment. This curation highlights the need to think across these intersecting domains when considering what truly supports health and prevention.