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The heavy truths about American obesity

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On the triumph of American gastrosophy

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Making way for the omnivores

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The staff of life

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Eating low on the hog

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A housewife’s noble–and occasionally tasty–experiment with a welfare diet

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Sense and nonsense about nutrition

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Dr. Beltzov’s polyunsaturated kasha oil diet

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Aunt Jean’s marshmallow fudge diet

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For me the Great Plains have a releasing effect. . . . Human effort is seen there in all its pitiful futility. — Thomas Hart Benton   Late one afternoon in the winter of 1987, a pair of academics named Frank and Deborah Popper were inching their way down the New Jersey Turnpike when the idea hit both of them at once. Or anyway, that’s how Frank tells it. There they were, puttering along, chatting about the conundrum of the Great Plains, whose rural population has been dwindling for nearly a century, when they were overcome by a shared epiphany, and turned to …
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