Eating Disorders

FDA just banned Red Dye 40—here’s why your kids’ favorite snacks are changing forever

Melody Glass April 23, 2025 This is an AI generated image. It was a familiar scene at my niece’s birthday party last month: twelve giggling second-graders, faces smeared with crimson frosting, suddenly burst into frenetic energy. We often shrug it off as a “sugar high.” But growing research suggests the bright red cupcakes and fruit punch might
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California bans toxic synthetic food dyes in school meals!

Governor Newsom signed AB-2316, the California School Food Safety Act, into law. The new law will ban toxic synthetic food dyes in school meals in California.Specifically, AB-2316 will prohibit a school district, county superintendent of schools, or charter school maintaining kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 12 from serving or selling food or beverages
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The Damaging Double Standard Behind Intermittent Fasting

Is it “optimization” or an eating disorder? Hope Corrigan Jack Dorsey has been a vocal proponent of intermittent fasting. Photo by David Becker/Getty Images Jack Dorsey doesn’t eat anything in the morning. Instead, he meditates for two hours, he takes an ice bath, and drinks a lot of water. He doesn’t eat anything for lunch, either.
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