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Halloween Hangover
As those of you with kids and/or sweet tooths continue combing through the spoils from last Friday, make sure to check out Vox’s article and clip from John Oliver’s show Last Week Tonight on the various problems with sugar. The video addresses the numerous health issues of sugar and the steps groups in the food and beverage industry are taking to hide these issues. Read and watch…
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Up On a Mountain
The Atlantic released a short documentary entitled, “The Benefit of Living Alone on a Mountain.” The documentary follows a fire lookout named Lief Haugen in Montana’s Flathead National Forest. An interesting look at the solitary life and job of being a fire lookout. Read and watch…
To Gluten or Not to Gluten
Diet trends come and go, many times making certain foods the enemy of large swaths of society. Gluten has been a recent victim, currently “a third of American adults say that they are trying to eliminate it from their diets.” The New Yorker has an article on this topic, “Against the Grain: Should you go gluten-free?” Read more…