Emily Gellis Lande is leading an Instagram campaign against Tanya Zuckerbrot, the creator of the F-Factor diet. Photo / Celeste Sloman, The New York Times
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Influencer Emily Gellis Lande has been on a campaign, posting on Instagram dozens of times a day about the dangers of a diet called F-Factor.
Gellis has never been on the diet. She relays anonymous stories from women who say that after beginning the diet they experience long-lasting rashes, intense cramps, even indications of metal poisoning, and that the diet encourages disordered eating.
The stories are anonymous, she said, because the women are afraid to criticise Tanya Zuckerbrot, the Instagram-famous registered dietician who created the diet.
Zuckerbrot has built a substantial business around the diet, with clients who have paid as much as $38,000 for her help
But now, since Gellis' campaign began, Zuckerbrot and her husband have been harassed and defamed, she said. She has brought in lawyers.
George H.W. Bush was in trouble. It was July 1988 and Michael Dukakis, the Democratic candidate for president, was on a roll after his party's convention. A poll showed Bush trailing by 17 points.
But he had a road map to victory.
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In the sprawling destruction of California's wildfires, one photo became an instant icon for 2020's miseries: On a hillside roaring with flames stood a sign that asked visitors to a senior centre to wear masks, wash their hands and be safe. "Come Join Us," it beckoned creepily.
The virus. Lost jobs. A world aflame.
The New York Times speaks to the people living this hell.
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Our appetite for watching romance — if that's what it's called — unfold is bottomless. So what does this mean for where the genre is heading? And what is behind our addiction?
The Times looks at if our insatiable appetite for reality dating show is actually good for us.
In Shanghai, restaurants and bars in many neighbourhoods are teeming with crowds. In Beijing, thousands of students are heading back to campus for the fall semester. In Wuhan, where the coronavirus emerged eight months ago, water parks and night markets are packed elbow to elbow, buzzing like before.
While much of the world are still struggling to contain the coronavirus pandemic, life in many parts of China has in recent weeks become strikingly normal.
The codename was "Project Panther". Markus Braun, the chief executive of German payments group Wirecard, had hired McKinsey & Co to help prepare his most audacious idea yet: a plan to take over Deutsche Bank.
What does the future hold for the office and the workers who once inhabited it?
In a series of stories The New York Times explored what becomes of gossip, or handshakes, or the work attire collecting dust in our closets.
This is an exploration of our lives OOO.
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The pandemic has fast-forwarded a looming reckoning for the tropical city of Cairns, the main gateway to the Great Barrier Reef.
Tour operators there were already fighting a perception that the reef is in its death throes, as warming waters cause repeated mass bleaching. But where climate change has been more of a creeping threat to the reef's survival, and thus to Cairns' tourism lifeblood, the coronavirus has delivered a hammer blow.
The New York Times looks at how the absence of visitors is bad for tourism operators — and the reef.
When the British government told people they no longer had to stay home, it needed a convincing pitch to get everyone back outside and, crucially, spending money.
The answer: half-price food. For the month of August, the government has been paying for a 50 per cent discount on all meals eaten in restaurants, pubs or cafes, up to 10 pounds per person, on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays.
It's a discount that Britons have taken up with relish. But how long will the resurgence last?
You're in a new job but it gets off to a really bad start. Do you stay for the pay or explore other options?
Harvard Business Review weights up both sides of the argument.
Fletcher Greene has an encyclopedic knowledge of the internet's dramas and daily displays.
This wasn't always the case. But in recent months, as paparazzi in Los Angeles have worked tirelessly to track down the few masked A-listers in town, Greene has turned his focus to subjects in plain sight: the social media stars of Gen Z.
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