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The Pandemic Ruined High School for Them. They’re Learning to Live Again.

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Stuck in their bedrooms, the class of 2021 missed important rites of passage — first job, first car, first date. Now young adults, they’re making up for what they missed at 16.

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How Weight-Loss Drugs Can Upend a Marriage

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Doctors warn about their physical side effects, but they can also have unexpected effects on intimacy.

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How the Right and the MAHA Movement Have Co-opted ‘Crunchy’

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Not to brag, but I have stellar “crunchy” bona fides. I was raised on wheat bread, limited television and camping vacations, and at 17 went off to Oberlin College, that notorious incubator of crunchy achievers. I am deeply familiar with

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The Appeal of the Smaller Breast (Podcast)

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For decades, breast augmentations have been one of the most popular cosmetic surgeries in the United States. But in recent years, a new trend has emerged: the breast reduction. LISA MILLER, who covers personal and cultural approaches to health for The Times, discusses why the procedure has become so common.

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Eudemonia, a Wellness Summit, Brings Health Seekers Together

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Thousands of health seekers, many of them distrustful of the medical system, made a pilgrimage to Florida to commune with the influencers and the self-proclaimed healers they believe in most.

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The Power of a Smaller Breast

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Breast reduction is all the rage in cosmetic surgery. Are women asserting their independence or capitulating to yet another impossible standard of beauty?

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The Rage, Secrecy and Pain of a Family Torn Apart by Addiction

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A Delaware family sees itself in the Hunter Biden story.

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When Did Everything Become a ‘Journey?’

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Changing our hair, getting divorced, taking spa vacations — they’re not just things we do; they’re “journeys.” The quest for better health is the greatest journey of all.

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Let Them Eat … Everything

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In the age of Ozempic, the “fat activist” Virginia Sole-Smith is inspiring and infuriating her followers.

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When the ‘Royal Body’ Has Cancer

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Catherine, Princess of Wales, asked for space after her cancer diagnosis. But true privacy is impossible with cancer — and for the wife of a future king. To be clear, there is nothing private about having cancer. A diagnosis requires

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