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Fast Forward Science explains Passover constipation — and how to fix it
A lack of fiber can wreak havoc on your intestines
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Culture This woman thought a Holocaust diet was a good idea
It can be almost physically painful to look at photos of concentration camp prisoners, so emaciated that you can see the shapes of their skulls, their kneecaps, their sternums in sharp relief. Those photos are one of the starkest, most impactful ways of driving home the horrors of the Holocaust. Unless you’re Gwen Shamblin, a…
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Food Fatty, crispy gribenes are finding a new home—as a diet chip
Gribenes are back. Those crispy, golden, fatty and slightly grotesque pieces of chicken skin fried in chicken fat have not returned to your local deli, but to your mass market snack aisle. Knobby, gnarled and often with a bit of feather attached, they were once a beloved part of Ashkenazi cuisine. Now, several startups have…
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Culture The gay, Jewish scientist the Nazis left alone
The scientist Otto Warburg played a pivotal role in unlocking a central mystery of cancer. But how he was allowed to advance our understanding of the disease is a mystery unto itself. At the time of Hitler’s ascent, when his colleagues fled en masse or were stripped of their positions, Warburg, a gay man from…
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Life Should We Lighten Up About Weight?
That now-infamous Vogue essay in which mother Dara-Lynn Weiss writes about putting her 7-year-old daughter on a diet — Weiss resorts to such tactics as occasionally refusing the youngster dinner, and publicly shaming her when she wanted to go off of her diet — has gotten the author a book deal and some public shaming of her…
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The Schmooze New Diet Plan: Dessert for Breakfast!
Want to lose weight? Just eat dessert with your breakfast. You read that correctly: Treat yourself to some chocolate cake or ice cream in the morning and you are more likely to take off and keep off the pounds. Researchers at Wolfson Medical Center and Tel Aviv University found that eating a larger breakfast, which…
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The Schmooze Auschwitz Photo Used in Health Club Ad
It’s not just Haredi Jews who have offended many this past week by using — or rather, abusing — Holocaust imagery. A news outlet in the United Arab Emirates reported that a Dubai health club put out a promotional poster with a picture of the gas chambers at Auschwitz-Birkenau, with the tag line: “Kiss your…
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