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Just how good is apple cider vinegar?

Weight loss

And Finally

Just how good is apple cider vinegar?

When a product claims to cure diabetes, cut your belly fat, clear your skin and minimize or prevent cancer, I get a little suspicious

Zak Asgard

My 600-Lb. Life: the end result of ‘body positivity’

Each episode offers a painful illustration of the consequences of extreme food addiction glorified today by activists

Tristan Justice

Oprah ditches WeightWatchers after shedding pounds with drugs

The business mogul revealed her use of weight loss medication last year

Cockburn

Why your summer diet is doomed

Among the summer temptations is of course the hotel breakfast buffet

Antonia Hoyle

Law

Lizzo doesn’t want anyone to out-fat her, dancers claim

Lawyers representing her dancers say they’ve received complaints of a ‘sexually charged environment’ and Lizzo fat-shaming her staff

Cockburn

Health
July 15, 2023
Does Ozempic have underexplored dangerous side effects?
History suggests that today’s ‘wonder’ drugs for fighting obesity may go the way of those which preceded them
Igho Onakpoya and Carl Heneghan
Health
July 13, 2023
Is Christina Hendricks the latest Ozempic tragedy?
The notoriously buxom Mad Men star has undergone a disheartening slimdown
Cockburn
Television
May 12, 2023
Get in loser, we’re canceling Bluey
This animated dog has gone too far
Matt McDonald
Science & Tech
February 27, 2023
The new war on weight
Thin is in — and new drugs promise a medical revolution
Kara Kennedy
Politics
December 5, 2021
The merry old land of Dr. Oz
America’s politics and celebrity culture blur together yet again as a TV doctor runs for Senate
Matt Purple
Food
August 5, 2021
Have my suits shrunk in lockdown?
As I struggled to pull on the trousers, I wondered if Caroline had hung one of the children’s suits in my cupboard
Toby Young
North Korea
July 8, 2021
Lil’ Kim: should the West prepare for chaos in North Korea?
State-run media is beginning to drop hints about Kim’s health
Andrei Lankov
Science & Tech
May 11, 2021
In defense of fat-shaming
Being fat isn’t like being old, it’s a choice
Chadwick Moore
Internet
May 7, 2020
Why can’t we celebrate Adele’s dramatic weight loss?
19, 21, 25…and now 6/10
Chadwick Moore
Internet
December 3, 2019
Actually, the husband in the Peloton commercial is a hero
This man spent nearly $3,000 on the Instagram-worthy exercise machine of the bourgeoisie
Amber Duke

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