Meghan Rabbitt

The doctor will Zoom you now.

I slip on disposable vinyl gloves and a surgical face mask, securing the elastic behind my ears. Susan Taylor-Pilarski, MD, does the same. Then, she hands me a gently used paper bag that once stored coffee beans. “Put your mask in this after you take it off so you can reuse it,” she tells me. It’s 8 a.m. and we’re standing 6 feet away from each other in the parking lot of Alfalfa’s supermarket in Louisville, Colorado, suiting up as if we’re about to see patients. Except we’re about to go grocery…

Here’s exactly what to eat before and after.

“We’re in a boat, paddling in perfect synchronicity, in order to move forward together.”

What one writer learned from shadowing a chef at the Tour de France.

Hello, clear skin.

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Lace up already! 

Hillary Johnson and her boyfriend, Sam Perez, met in a club in New York City nearly five years ago, and when they had their first conversation, Hillary didn’t hold back: “I’m pretty sure I let my vegan flag fly right away,” says the audio engineer. “Sam offered to buy me a beer, and when they didn’t have my go-to Sierra Nevada—which I know is vegan—Sam asked me about my favorite drinks and I pretty much told him, ‘I’m vegan, and the barrels they use to ferment beer are coated with fish bladder.’…

You walk in the door, and your pup practically knocks you over with excitement. The last thing you think as he licks your face is catching salmonella, E. coli, or roundworms, right? Well, not to put the kibosh on those feel-good furry snuggle sessions, but a new review published in The Canadian Medical Association Journal looked at more than 500 studies to make recommendations on how to minimize our risk of catching zoonotic diseases—meaning ones we can get from our pets. Some of the scary facts…