The Second House
A monthly newsletter on nutrition news, food policy, food access, and some hot takes in between.
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The Body as the Divine (opens the original)
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I struggled to title this piece. There is no short or snappy title to encompass the thousand years’ old shift from full bodies as divine to the fatphobic world we live in now. With medications like GLP-1s and peptides abundantly marketed, mixed with shrinking celebrities and pushes to the thin aesthetic, it’s impossible to not feel the pressure to look a certain way. I’ve written other pieces on this, but today I saw a tweet that made me stop and pause. <a class="image
Something is Better Than Nothing: A Case for Snacking as a Harm Reductive Practice (opens the original)
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A few days ago, a TikTok of mine went viral simply for reminding people that when you don’t eat breakfast or skip any meals, your breath could suffer. This was introduced by me reading a viral tweet I saw that day, which noted how folks could “smell empty”. <a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!OnRN!,f_auto,q_
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