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NY Times Article by Michael Pollan

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.

NY Times Article by Anahad O’Connor

Five years ago, a group of nutrition scientists studied what Americans eat and reached a striking conclusion: More than half of all the calories that the average American consumes comes from ultra-processed foods, which they defined as “industrial formulations” that combine large amounts of sugar, salt, oils, fats and other additives.

NY Times Article by Gretchen Reynolds

High-intensity workouts get a lot of attention and can be great for health. But moderate physical activity may have metabolic advantages.

Including high-intensity training in your workouts provided better protection against premature death than moderate workouts alone..

NY Times Article by Kelly DiNardo

Breathe. We do it roughly 25,000 times a day, but until recently few of us gave much thought to this automatic bodily function.

NY Times Article by Bijal P. Trivedi

If you’ve smugly enjoyed the dystopian worlds of “The Handmaid’s Tale” (where infertility is triggered in part by environmental pollutants) or “Children of Men” (where humanity is on the precipice of extinction) — and believed that these stories were rooted firmly in fantasy — Shanna Swan’s “Count Down” will serve as an awakening.

NY Times Article by Jen Doll

Earlier this year, I suffered my first major panic attack. For days afterward, my heart would race and my mind would fill with doomsday visions as I worried about everything around me, including whether I’d have more panic attacks and if I’d ever be able to stop them.