Anahad O'Connor

columnist for the Washington Post’s wellbeing section

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Reporter for the New York Times, covering health, fitness, nutrition and epidemiology; author of Never Shower in a Thunderstorm: Surprising Facts and Misleading Myths About Our Health and the World We Live In

Anahad O'Connor on KCRW

In the 1980s, RJ Reynolds and Phillip Morris bought Kraft and Nabisco, pumping their food with sugar, fat, sodium, and other additives that made people crave them.

Addicted to junk food? Big tobacco is partly to blame, says new research

In the 1980s, RJ Reynolds and Phillip Morris bought Kraft and Nabisco, pumping their food with sugar, fat, sodium, and other additives that made people crave them.

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The Food and Drug Administration has authority over a $33 billion business in dietary supplements for weight loss and work-outs sold in hundreds of vitamin shops across the nation.

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The Food and Drug Administration has authority over a $33 billion business in dietary supplements for weight loss and work-outs sold in hundreds of vitamin shops across the nation.

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