Living with an eating disorder “You are what you eat.” I wanted to be everything and then nothing, so I ate accordingly for three years…
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A journey to find individual beauty I started noticing my struggles with food my freshman year of high school. Up until that point, I was…
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Roughly one in every 100 adults in the U.S. is incarcerated. For the 99 percent on the outside, jails and prisons are hidden and enigmatic. Movies and TV dramas about prison life are popular, showing that people want to know what really goes on behind bars: the alliances, the punishments, and, of course, the food.
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Since the early 2000s, on the heels of a huge growth in consumer demand for organic food, an unprecedented change in how food is marketed and produced has occurred. The result is that a word that was once quite important has lost most of its meaning, and both consumers and farmers are the ones losing out.
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Possible medical benefits of psychedelic drug use LSD, psilocybin mushrooms and other psychedelic drugs may be staking out a new role in society. Once known…
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Military recruitment sends immigrants into combat At the height of the Iraq War in 2007, Jesus Palafox was busy fighting his own personal battle in…
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A daughter’s perspective My mom always mentions that she never meant for things to end up this way. She said that when she was young…
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Strength-based programs help veterans adjust to civilian life Forty thousand fans filled Wrigley Field with hot dogs and peanuts in hand, embracing the summer sun…
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Exploring the spectrum of sex and gender For many individuals, sex is something static. You’re assigned male or female at birth, and that is how…
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