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Dear Food Diary NYC writers keep food diaries, recording every bite (and sip) for four long weeks. Along the way, they make some surprising discoveries about themselves and their diets, while learning how to eat in healthier ways. [read more] |
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| My 'Hood is Bad for My Health The writer wants to eat healthy, but it's a struggle—She lives with a grandmother who cooks mostly with meat and oil, and and a neighborhood full of fast food. [read more] |
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Scaling Back Erica has used food to deal with various emotional problems, but feels healthier and stronger when she gets her eating habits under control. [read more] |
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| Skinniest Man in the Graveyard The male writer loves to eat and is overweight from an early age. By age 15 he becomes obsessed with shedding pounds and resorts to bouts of anorexia and bulimia. [read more] |
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Dangerously in Love With a Danish A Danish is Hattie's perfect partner--with his soft cherry lips and tan complexion, he's just there to please. [read more] |
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| Bonding Through Cooking When Aurora enters a foster home she expects her foster mother to cook for her, but soon finds out she's expected to make her own meals. The other girls in the home teach Aurora to cook, and in the process she forms friendships with women her age for the first time. [read more] |
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