The malnutrition metaphor is telling. Historically, malnutrition was associated with food scarcity—one ate what one could and, in conditions of insufficient food or food quality, one became ...

Metaphors are often used in poetry, literature, songs and everyday speech to make the tone more illustrative or expressive. Metaphor examples in songs include: "Life is a highway." "I am titanium." ...

Metaphors can provide insight into a problem or situation by taking what we know about one thing and using that to shape our understanding of another. For example, my colleague Paul Thibodeau ...