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JOANNA WEISS

Battling children’s obesity

Is plain cereal good for you? What about avocados? Parental food myths are part of a larger problem in our culture

While it’s easy to simply label smoking bad, it’s much harder to change habits about food. Especially when much of what we’ve been taught about healthy eating turns out to be untrue, writes Joanna Weiss.

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