Almost two years later, I can still remember how this hit like a gut punch when Deb Burgard said it to me during our interview for The Eating Instinct. When you’re steeped in diet culture, you learn to fear, …
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Almost two years later, I can still remember how this hit like a gut punch when Deb Burgard said it to me during our interview for The Eating Instinct. When you’re steeped in diet culture, you learn to fear, …
Maybe it was when I got the press release for “paleo baby food.” Or it’s from interviewing moms who counted calories and carbs throughout their pregnancies, trying to walk the line between growing their baby and not gaining “too much” …
Billionaire Jack Dorsey shared his best “wellness tips” with a podcast and started the whole Internet talking about how he eats only one meal a day and fasts every weekend. Because when teenage girls do it before prom, it’s an …
Just a little reminder… Dr. Gershon (a professor of cell biology and pathology at Columbia, who specializes in gut bacteria and the microbiome) told me this when I asked him to explain “detoxing” for the readers of SELF Magazine in …
I received an advance copy of Megan Stack’s stunning new book Women’s Work back in February and I have been dying to tell you all about it ever since.
This was a finish-in-a-weekend, couldn’t put it down kind of read. …
Here’s the bottom line on the huge gaps in our understanding of menstruation, from my Scientific American piece in the May 2019 issue.
Let me also say, quite clearly: I’m part of this experiment. I’ve been suppressing my menstrual cycle …
Scientific American asked me to write about the enormous gaps in menstruation research for the May 2019 issue. One of the biggest: Why are girls starting puberty earlier than ever before?
The average age of menarche, or a girl’s first …
Medium asked me to explore sobriety experiments for their new health mag, Elemental. And I have to admit, I’ve long been skeptical of Dry January, Sober October, etc. because there is something very cleanse/crash diet-y about A LOT of the …
Our 5 year old loves her ballet class, mostly because of all the twirling (sometimes with scarves!). But someone recently praised her “long ballerina legs” and I died a little. I was talking with a friend about it later and …
I picked up THE CARE AND FEEDING OF RAVENOUSLY HUNGRY GIRLS at my own book event at Northshire Books in Saratoga Springs, NY, because I could not resist the gorgeous cover or the title (which, lets be real, is kind …
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