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There isn’t always time for a lunch break. But there’s always arugula. Every day, the blogger Alex Lyons orders the same salad from the same New...
There isn’t much evidence that the diet leads to lasting weight loss. Why is it still so popular? In 2012, the BBC aired a documentary that...
The bird-flu panic has gotten out of control. Milk is defined by its percentages: nonfat, 2 percent, whole. Now there is a different kind of milk...
A brand-new sweetener has joined the ranks of aspartame and stevia. It’s still nothing like real sugar. A few months ago, my doctor uttered a phrase...
The cocoa shortage is making chocolate more expensive—maybe forever. Good chocolate, I’ve come to learn, should taste richly of cocoa—a balanced...
Who asked for seltzer with ashwagandha? Recently, a balmy spring day left me feeling parched. I needed a beverage—stat!—and had forgotten my water...
No parent has the time or energy to make homemade meals all the time. On Sunday evening, I fed a bowl of salmon, broccoli, and rice to my...
Millions more Americans are now eligible for obesity drugs. But the injections remain maddeningly hard to find. The irony undergirding the new wave of...
The most promising future of lab-grown meat may not look like meat at all. Recently, a photo of rice left me confused. The rice itself looked tasty...
“Stand six feet apart” stickers will be here for many years to come. Last Friday, in a bathroom at the Newark airport, I encountered a phrase I...
The obsession with digestion has gone too far. In my childhood home, an often-repeated phrase was “All disease begins in the gut.” My dad, a...
The obesity-drug revolution is leaving lots of people behind. No medication in the history of modern weight loss has inspired as much awe as the...
“How much is too much?” is an impossible question. On Tuesday, curiosity finally got the best of me. How potent could Panera’s Charged Lemonades...
Choosing a workout regimen has become a workout in and of itself. This year, I’m going to get into shape. It does not matter that I’ve made this...
A label once intended for meat replacements is now used for shampoo, booze, and nearly every other product imaginable. Several years ago, I made a New...
Kids can get burnt from any hot liquid. But one kind stands above the rest. When the weather turns frigid, there is only one thing to do: make a pot...
Pharmaceutical companies are racing to create obesity drugs you can swallow. They might not be as great as they sound. Within the first five seconds...
Why wasn’t I ready for “mom feet”? One night in July, a few weeks after my son was born, I lay awake, desperately scrolling through photos of...
The outdated, much-maligned health measure now determines who gets obesity drugs—and who doesn't. If anything defines America’s current...
Wegovy is about to go mainstream. A wild idea recently circulated about the future of aviation: If passengers lose weight via obesity drugs, airlines...
Behold: a yellow watermelon. On a recent visit to the supermarket, I found myself terribly disturbed by a carton of fruit. There, among the...