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New Anti-Obesity Ad Campaign: Intentional Shocker, or Unnecessarily Nauseating?

[Department of Health] Today, the New York Department of Health launches a new ad campaign aimed at preventing obesity and decreasing sugar consumption—by asking if your drinking habits are making you fat. (Not the fun sort of drinking habits,...

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Groundbreaking Diet Tips from the 'New York Times'

See Padma box. Photo from the NYT In a predictably high-concept, low-payoff ditty, today's New York Times Fitness section includes a piece titled "Staying Fit When Eating Is Your Job"—surveying a vast panel of experts amounting to, well, Top Chef...

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Fat food writer's blues

I admit it. I've gotten fat. I was a fat kid, and I got even fatter in college. Of course I tried the Atkins diet in college, and I did lose a lot of weight, but I also came down...

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The First Day is the Hardest

The first day of a diet is always the hardest. Everything you think about food-wise seems so damned appealing. And for someone like me, who knows where almost every great morsel of food is in New York (and a...

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