For all of human history, the natural sugars in fruits, vegetables and other plants have served us well. They have provided essential fuel for our body’s most important processes. But now that sugars have been processed into more potent forms and added to so many foods and drinks — sodas, candies, breakfast cereals, salad dressings,…
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Midlife, typically defined as ages 40 to 60, is an inflection point. It’s a time when our past behaviors begin to catch up with us and we start to notice our bodies and minds aging — sometimes in frustrating or disconcerting ways. But it’s also an opportunity: What our older years will look and feel…
Earthquakes are always unnerving. But for some, the aftershocks can go on beyond the actual tremors: People can experience anxiety, sleep problems and other health issues in the hours and days after a quake. One such effect is a sense of dizziness after an especially large or frightening earthquake. In Japan, this feeling is called…
On the surface, Lizzo’s new shapewear-influenced swimwear line seems all about control. “These suits have a power to hold,” Lizzo, the Grammy-Award-winning singer and fashion entrepreneur, said in a video interview. “Let me tell you something: I have broken into a sweat trying to get some of these on.” That Lizzo, a trailblazer of fat…
Cancer is not just an intrusive, malignant replication of cells that “lives desperately, inventively, fiercely, territorially, casually, and defensively” in the body, as Siddhartha Mukherjee wrote in “The Emperor of All Maladies,” but it always carries with it a whiff of death. At its best, cancer is something to be vigilant about and to contain….
And so, early that Friday, the woman drove her husband to Danbury Hospital, the emergency room closest to the couple’s small Connecticut town. He walked in on his own. It was the last time he would walk without help for weeks. Many Pink Pills He was admitted to the hospital. Neurology was consulted and did…
Tianna James used to love looking at the photographs Dronme Davis posted of herself on Instagram. Ms. Davis, a plus-size model, included pictures from her modeling campaigns alongside selfies of her stretch-marked stomach with captions like “fat belly saggy tits Sunday.” For Ms. James, 22, Ms. Davis’s feed was a revelation. “I wanted to feel…
How do you know when it’s real love? Not for your own relationship. (That’s a question for another column.) But as an outsider looking at a couple, is it possible to discern real love just by looking at how they interact? For some, it was evident in the way Travis Kelce of the Kansas City…
