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Justin Sedor
Diet & Nutrition
You Don’t
Really
Have Choices When Shopping For Food
Justin Sedor
May 22, 2014
Diet & Nutrition
Quiz: How Do You Compare To Drinkers Around The World?
Justin Sedor
May 22, 2014
Health Trends
Surprise! Airplanes Are Hotbeds For Disgusting Bacteria
Justin Sedor
May 22, 2014
Health Trends
This Song About Cancer Might Be Your New Summer Jam
Photo: MediaPunch Inc/REX USA. Unless you have a family member who's gone through it (or you've gone through it yourself), it's hard to unde
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Justin Sedor
Health Trends
Will Lab-Grown Meat Fix Our Food System?
Photographed By Erin Phraner. Of the many reasons people have for choosing not to eat meat, some are easier to question than others. For example, there
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Justin Sedor
Health Trends
E-Cigarettes ARE Effective At Helping Smokers Quit
As far as recreational chemical inhalants go, e-cigs are A-okay in our book. They're way better for your lungs (and your overall health) than regular
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Justin Sedor
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Sex
The Strange Way We Seek Out Our Ideal Match
Photographed By Lauren Perlstein. Recently, a super-surreal, vaguely disturbing trend called “boyfriend twins” made the rounds on Tumblr and th
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Justin Sedor
Sex
Yikes: Could You Have This STI & Not Know It?
Illustrated By Ly Ngo. STIs are sort of like car accidents: No matter how many times we hear about how prevalent or dangerous they are, we manage to convin
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Justin Sedor
Mind
Do We All Turn Into Sexist Body Shamers In The Voting Booth?
Photo: Media Punch Inc/RexUSA While Hillary Clinton seems to be the Democrats' horse of choice for the 2016 presidential race (assuming she even wants
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Justin Sedor
Health Trends
The New McDonald’s Happy Meal Mascot Is Scary β & Hilarious
You don't need us to tell you that fast food is bad for you — and for the planet. From Super Size Me to Fast Food Nation to Food, Inc. to Fed Up
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Justin Sedor
Diet & Nutrition
What, Exactly, Is Quinoa?
Photographed By Ingalls Photo. For years, the health-conscious among us have been raving about quinoa — and for good reason. It's a favorite car
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Justin Sedor
Body
Is This A Better Way To Treat Menstrual Cramps?
Photo: Courtesy of Amazon. From Midol to Advil to Motrin, ibuprofen has been the go-to option for treating menstrual cramps for years. But, recent research
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Justin Sedor
Diet & Nutrition
Gluten Sensitivity May Not be Real After All
Photographed By Eugena Ossi. Over the past few years, “gluten” has rapidly become a dirty word. Even though many of us don't even know wha
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Justin Sedor
Diet & Nutrition
Women, Eating, & Shame: This Artist Gets It
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Justin Sedor
Fitness
Crossfit While Pregnant? This Woman Did It β & It’s Amazing
Is it just me, or do people tend to think of pregnant women as incredibly fragile, walking time-bombs of danger that must be approached with extreme cautio
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Justin Sedor
Body
Even One Night Of Binge Drinking Has Serious Health Effects
Photographed By Ruby Yeh. If there's one thing I learned in college, it's that going hard has serious consequences the next morning. Of course, w
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Justin Sedor
Fitness
The MOST Effective Ab Workout, Period.
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Justin Sedor
Health Trends
How A Megadose Of Measles Can Fight Cancer
Photographed By Jessica Nash. There's a new treatment in town, and it could change the way we fight The Big C: A recent groundbreaking Mayo Clinic tri
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Justin Sedor
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Body
A Truly Inspiring Before & After Photo
Photo: Via Kickstarter. A casual stroll through Twitter (or the comments sections of most websites) will show you that the internet can be a profoundly dep
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Justin Sedor
Diet & Nutrition
More Proof Food Labels Are Not What They Seem
Photo: Via Walmart. First your breakfast cereal, and now your chicken breasts/cheeseburgers/[insert favorite cut of meat here]. Last week, Kellogg was orde
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Justin Sedor
Health Trends
The Crazy-Simple Way To Test For A Dangerous Disease
It used to be that diagnosing something like lung cancer or heart disease required an extensive battery of invasive blood tests, X-rays, EKGs, and the like
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Justin Sedor
Sex
Can Changing Your Birth Control Make You Fall Out Of Lust?
Photographed By Jessica Nash. Hormonal birth control is a tricky beast. There's a long list of possible negative side effects — some of which ar
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Justin Sedor
Body
What You Need To Know About Vitamin D
Photo: Courtesy Of Target. If this week's balmy temps are anything to go by, winter and its hardships are finally a distant memory. Unfortunately, thi
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Justin Sedor
Diet & Nutrition
Red Wine’s Buzzy Nutrient May Not Be As Healthy As We Thought
Photographed By Rockie Nolan. Any casual romp around the Internet will show you that what we think we know about nutrition is often based purely on hype an
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Justin Sedor
Fitness
Shape
To Feature “Real” Women After Brooke B...
Last week, I reported on Brooke Birmingham, a blogger whose bikini photos were rejected by Shape Magazine due, she speculated, to the way her body looked a
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Justin Sedor
Health Trends
FDA Approves
Star Wars
-Esque Bionic Arm
Star Wars enthralled a generation of moviegoers who imagined the future would just look like that galaxy far, far away. Of course, intergalactic warfare ha
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Justin Sedor
Diet & Nutrition
90% Of This Population Will Be Overweight By 2030 β It’s No...
Photographed By Ruby Yeh. French women don't get fat — or so the saying goes. As obesity rates in America have soared over the past few decades,
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Justin Sedor
Sex
Frequent Arguing Is Really Bad For You, Says Science
Whether it's your significant other, your mom, your brother, or your best friend, we all have that one person with whom we constantly find ourselves b
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Justin Sedor
Fitness
Proof Those “Barefoot” Running Shoes Are BS
Photo: Courtesy Of REI. I don't have too many pet peeves. But, people who wear shoes with individual toe pockets? Definitely on the list. Of course, b
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Justin Sedor
Health Trends
This Ad Campaign Is All Kinds Of Awesome
Photo: Courtesy Of Johnathan Ross Wenske and Kris Haro. Somehow, even in 2014, breastfeeding in public remains controversial in many parts of the country.
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Justin Sedor
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