Medical Diets Have Gone Mainstream for All the Wrong Reasons
Weight loss was never the purpose of Ketogenic, FODMAP, or gluten-free diets.
Food
If America Is So Rich, Why Are 40 Million People Hungry?
The U.S. tops statistics for both food insecurity and obesity. There’s a long history that got us here.
Do All Women Have Eating Disorders?
From a very young age, girls are taught that being skinny is a virtue and consuming “too much” is sinful. Will women ever be able to eat and drink without guilt?
“Whatever She’s Making, I Don’t Want Any”
In this exclusive excerpt from her poignant new memoir, TREYF, Elissa Altman's mother demonstrates over brunch with her in-laws that being difficult isn't the same thing as being wrong.
Best Weekend: Grace Jones’s Memoir, the Malala Doc + More
What we'll be listening to, watching, and reading to sate our pop culture needs.
Must-Read Links: Critical Charleston Writings, Clinton’s Campaign + More
The most compelling stories from our favorite sources.
Dear Julie: Advice About Ditching Home Sales Parties and Difficult Dinner Guests
DAME’s Friendkeeper has a few words for feeding all those friends with so many food issues, and helps a woman extricate herself from 21st-century Tupperware parties.
Monsanto: Six Truths and a Lie
Guess which one of these evil things Monsanto didn’t do.
Toxic Cleanse: Debunking Detox Diet Myths
If you are what you eat, when you cleanse, you’re practically nothing.