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Check Your Privilege Before Talking About Obesity and Personal Responsibility

By Yoni Freedhoff — 2016

Many people's realities make lifestyle reform a nearly impossible luxury.

Read on health.usnews.com

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'Ensure That Your Diet Is 90% to 100% Plant-based': 9 Food Rules from the World's Longest-living People

More than 15 years ago, I set out to reverse-engineer a formula for longevity. Working with renowned doctors and nutritionists, I identified several Blue Zones: Places around the world where people live the longest.

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Foods That Fight Inflammation

Choices that can help prevent everything from heart disease to type 2 diabetes.

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What Health Experts Eat to Manage Stress

Even though we know stress has serious health consequences and can impact our energy, focus, and work performance, many of us still struggle. Food and lifestyle habits can make a significant difference, though.

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What Happened When I Tried the Ayurvedic Diet for a Week

Far more a lifestyle than a diet, a famous Ayurvedic saying is, “When diet is wrong, medicine is of no use; When diet is correct, medicine is of no need.”

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Is Sugar Killing Us?

Experts warn that it may have an outsize role in causing obesity and diabetes—thus increasing the risk of chronic illnesses such as heart disease.

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Is Sugar Toxic?

The history of the debate over the health effects of sugar has gone on far longer than you might imagine. It is littered with erroneous statements and conclusions because even the supposed authorities had no true understanding of what they were talking about.

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Why You Shouldn’t Take a Flying Leap at Healthy

If you want to improve your health, treat it like school. Changes made in a hurry won’t last.

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This Ugly Diet and Weight-Related Complication Is Crippling Care and Progress

Blame and shame will not lead to sustainable weight loss.

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How to Be Healthy, in Just 48 Words

Daytime television talk shows, popular podcasts and diet books on the New York Times best-seller list would have you believe that being healthy is complicated. Forget fad diets and fitness gimmicks. Just stick to the basics.

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Unhappy Meals

Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. That, more or less, is the short answer to the supposedly incredibly complicated and confusing question of what we humans should eat in order to be maximally healthy.

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