NEW YORK TIMES // SEPTEMBER 2019
Parents often place a moral value on children’s eating habits — here’s why they shouldn’t.
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NEW YORK TIMES // SEPTEMBER 2019
Parents often place a moral value on children’s eating habits — here’s why they shouldn’t.
NEW YORK TIMES // AUGUST 2019
Kurbo by WW promises to fight childhood obesity by teaching kids aged 8 to 17 healthy eating strategies — but is it ever a good idea to teach kids how to diet?
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MEDIUM // AUGUST 2019
Anorexia has serious implications at any weight, but heavier patients face a pervasive, harmful stigma
NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE // JUNE 2019
Does it make sense, medically or ethically, when fertility clinics refuse to treat prospective mothers they consider too large?
PARENTS // JUNE 2019
I’ve found that trying to be a totally crunchy mama is not all it’s cracked up to be. Here’s how I reevaluated the ‘rules’ and went green my own way.
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN // APRIL 2019
Age-old taboos against menstruation have led to a lack of research on how women’s cycles work, with serious consequences for their health
MEDIUM // APRIL 2019
Why people are giving up drinking, even when they don’t have a problem
BITCH // FEBRUARY 2019
Mostly white, mostly male, mostly thin food writers and chefs have turned being thin—and eating in the labor-intensive way they think guarantees thinness—into a moral imperative.
PARENTS // JANUARY 2019
We’re often so focused on getting our kids to eat vegetables that we forget it’s perfectly normal to go for dishes that taste good. Here’s why you should stress less about the fries and pizza and …
MEDIUM // NOVEMBER 2018
As locavorism, veganism, and other healthy food trends took off, some of the people who pushed them the hardest suffered the most.
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