Aubrey Gordon collects vintage diet program books. She has amassed just about 100 titles, which includes the 1973 quantity “Slimming Down,” prepared by Johnny Carson’s sidekick, Ed McMahon. “Slimming Down” — which showcased chapter titles like “The Breadstick Conspiracy” and “Two Martinis Into Connecticut” — is the e book that […]
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Inside hip-hop’s complex relationship with health
When Freeway was diagnosed with kidney failure in 2015, members of his team warned him not to go public with the news. “They was like, ‘Yo, you shouldn’t do this. You shouldn’t say this. We just have to deal with this amongst ourselves,’” the 42-year-old rapper recalled in an interview […]