‘It goes so hard in both directions’: John Early and Kate Berlant on making you laugh and cry in new influencer satire https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jun/17/maddies-secret-john-early-kate-berlant #ComedyFilms #Film #Culture #JohnEarly #KateBerlant #Comedy #DietsAndDieting #LifeAndStyle
‘It goes so hard in both directions’: John Early and Kate Berlant on making you laugh and cry in new influencer satire

In his directorial debut Maddie’s Secret, Early plays a food influencer with bulimia in a wild flip on the modern melodrama

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NHS staff battling wave of food supplement disinformation

Exclusive: Cancer charity says dispelling falsehoods gleaned from social media is now routine task for clinicians

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Doctors don’t know what to do about wellness influencers but we dismiss them at our peril

To be a cancer specialist is to see the worst of harm caused by social media. Yet I have never changed a patient’s mind with outrage

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And, lo! The latest fad diet is upon us – and it’s called ‘eating biblically’

Some Christian conservatives are only eating foods mentioned in the Bible. At least Jesus wasn’t devouring ultra-processed sausage rolls, writes Arwa Mahdawi

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Intermittent fasting no better than typical weight loss diets, study finds

Researchers say limited eating approaches such as 5:2 diet not a ‘miracle solution’ amid surge in their popularity

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I was told to accept chronic migraines. Then a keto diet gave me my life back | Natalie Mead https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/30/chronic-migraines-keto-diet #Health #DietsAndDieting #UsHealthcare #UsNews #Society
I was told to accept chronic migraines. Then a keto diet gave me my life back

It took six years to identify the condition that caused my chronic pain: a blood sugar dysregulation condition

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I was told to accept chronic migraines. Then a keto diet gave me my life back | Natalie Mead https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/30/chronic-migraines-keto-diet #Health #DietsAndDieting #UsHealthcare #UsNews #Society
I was told to accept chronic migraines. Then a keto diet gave me my life back

It took six years to identify the condition that caused my chronic pain: a blood sugar dysregulation condition

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Gut check: are at-home microbiome tests a way to ‘hack your health’ or simply a waste? | Antiviral https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/20/at-home-microbiome-gut-tests-health #Health #DietsAndDieting
Gut check: are at-home microbiome tests a way to ‘hack your health’ or simply a waste?

Spruiked by online influencers as a way of gaining insight into our health, experts say at-home tests oversimplify complex factors and can cause unnecessary distress

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