I refuse to feel shame after eating – but it saddens me that so many women still do
I thought moralised comments about eating were a thing of the past, but then I went on a girls’ holiday.
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The ultra-processed food swindle
Engineered to trick our taste buds and appetites, artificially produced food is ruining our health and damaging our children. But…
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Letter of the week: The health challenge
Write to letters@newstatesman.co.uk to have your thoughts voiced in the New Statesman magazine.
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How germs shape history
Jonathan Kennedy’s Pathogenesis reveals how diseases have built and broken empires and economies.
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Skinny jeans, plastics, stress: what’s behind the decline in male fertility?
Why scientists are increasingly concerned about sperm.
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Brain surgery in a warzone
For Ukrainians, victory is inevitable – but in the country’s hospitals, it is clear that winning the war will come…
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Sick Britain: where have all the workers gone?
An unwell, understaffed country has emerged from the era of Covid-19.
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How Big Tech made us screen addicts
Gaia Bernstein’s Unwired argues that smart devices are engineered to keep our children hooked. Can we hold the industry to…
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