Hi Reader, If you've heard the news about the cyclospora outbreak moving through the U.S., you might be searching for recipes built around cooked fruits and vegetables, even though we're right in the middle of peak summer produce season. (Terrible timing.) Health officials have since traced part of the outbreak to shredded iceberg lettuce, but the investigation is ongoing and other sources may still turn up. I appreciated Kara Lydon's quick, no-fear-mongering breakdown of the food safety...

Hey Reader, I keep noticing something in non-diet spaces. A coach will use all the right phrases. Food freedom. Ditch the diets. Listen to your body. And then, further down, the actual offer: lose weight, but slowly and "sustainably" this time. And look, I'm not trying to drag anyone. But you've probably worked hard to get skeptical of diet culture, and this is exactly the kind of messaging that could still get past you. It's using the non-diet language you trust to sell the thing you're...

Hi Reader, I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the tension between wanting to eat intuitively and still needing to plan ahead. I was working with a client who’d bought ingredients for the meals she planned at the start of the week, and by mid-week, she wasn’t really feeling any of them. She wanted to eat what sounded good, but the produce was sitting in the fridge and she felt like she had to use it. She wasn’t sure if honoring that felt more like being practical, or like following a rule....