health

Your Craving for Carbs Mimics Drug Addiction in Your Brain

As Fat Bastard from the Austin Powers series once grumbled, “Carbs are the enemy.” It’s a mantra many people trying to drop a few pounds…

Basic Dad: When Should I Worry About My Kid Being Fat?

Advice from a child nutritionist, a lunch lady, a former fat kid and more

Can a Salt Bath Clear My Sinuses—And Head?

I’m lying in a 104-degree red brick sauna littered with 1,000-year-old salt minerals at Wi Spa in the Koreatown neighborhood of Los Angeles. Every so often,…

Is Fruit Secretly Bullshit?

From an early age, fruits and vegetables are held aloft together on a pedestal: the ultimate in healthy eating, five daily portions of which will…

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