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When does ‘clean eating’ stop being about nutrition and start being about control? The term can flatten food into a set of pass-or-fail rules, narrowing what’s on the plate and making little room for pleasure, spontaneity or the shared rituals of a meal

Tracy Chapman’s “Fast Car,” a ballad about a dead-end life, made the Billboard Hot 100 twice, nearly 40 years apart. As a doctor, I’m not surprised. “Fast Car” is about someone trying desperately to move up in life even as obstacles mount — bleak job, insufficient finances, family obligations, and increasing isolation. The song endures…

When Mila Makovec was three years old, her parents started to notice that something was wrong. Previously an active and healthy toddler, Mila began to get stuck on words, have sight problems, and walk strangely. This was just the start of the symptoms of her ultra-rare genetic disease, a fatal neurological disorder called Batten disease…