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Diet
October 23, 2020
Jan Dutkiewicz
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Gabriel N. Rosenberg
Instead of Reengineering Cows, Just Eat Less Meat
Meat consumption is the third rail in climate politics. But no amount of ingenuity is going to make feedlots good for the environment.
June 1, 2020
Geoff Dembicki
Trump Is Bailing Out Big Meat—and Further Screwing the Planet
Preserving the current system means preserving a climate-destroying supply chain built around industrial meat production.
May 27, 2016
Joanna Scutts
The Depression Era’s Magic Bullet For Weight Loss
The most effective diet pill of the twentieth century helped thousands of people lose weight—by boiling them from the inside.
February 17, 2016
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Corby Kummer
The Hunger Games
The unsettled science of weight control.
January 7, 2016
Esther Breger
Maybe it’s time to rethink that Paleo diet, bro.
November 24, 2015
Laura Marsh
Food, Interrupted
Bee Wilson's “First Bite” explores the roots of our disordered twenty-first century eating habits.
February 19, 2015
Rebecca Leber
The U.S. Government Thinks You Should Put Down That Hamburger
June 20, 2014
Ajit Niranjan
Broccoli Juice May Help Your Body Flush Carcinogens—Just Don't Call It a Detox
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