My refrigerator has a chronic real-estate problem. The issue isn’t leftovers, but condiments. Jars and bottles have filled the door and taken over the main shelves. There’s so little room…
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When my 2-year-old began favoring string cheese and croutons over peas and cauliflower, I tried to get creative. First, I mimicked the artsy approach to vegetables I remembered from childhood,…
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Doctors often have a piece of advice for the rest of us: Don’t Google it. The search giant tends to be the first stop for people hoping to answer every…
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It was bound to happen again. For the second time in two months, the United States has confirmed a case of bird flu in a dairy worker employed by a…
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When patients start on the latest obesity drugs, they find that their food cravings drop away, and then the pounds do too. But when patients go off the drugs, the…
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Of all the creatures stricken with this new and terrible H5N1 flu—the foxes, the bears, the eagles, ducks, chickens, and many other birds—dairy cattle are some of the most intimate…
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At the start of the spring of 2015, Jeffrey, a three-year-old meerkat, was happily eating, tussling with his brothers, and surveying zoo patrons from his usual perch, his forepaws gathered…
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Every day, the blogger Alex Lyons orders the same salad from the same New York City bodega and eats it in the same place: her desk. She eats it while…
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In 2012, the BBC aired a documentary that pushed diet culture to a new extreme. For Eat, Fast, and Live Longer, the British journalist Michael Mosley experimented with eating normally…
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It used to be that whenever someone on TV or in a movie fell off the roof or had a skiing mishap or got into any sort of auto accident,…