New York Times

Soy milk can raise the risk of breast cancer. Fat-free foods are healthier than high-fat foods. Vegans and vegetarians are deficient in protein.

“In the 1950s, the first dietary recommendations for prevention of obesity, Type 2 diabetes, heart disease and the like advised balancing calories and minimizing foods high in saturated fat, salt and sugar. So far, the science does not indicate a link between soy intake and breast cancer risk in humans. If your baby does not have severe eczema or a known food allergy, you can start introducing peanut products (such as watered-down peanut butter, peanut puffs or peanut powders, but not whole peanuts) at around 4 to 6 months, when your baby is ready for solids. But now, allergy experts say, Merrigan said, many have more added ingredients — like sodium and added sugars, which can contribute to poor health — than cow’s milk. And [other research suggests](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31238615/#:~:text=Patients%20with%20fruit%20consumption%20of,0.59%2D0.78)%2C%20respectively.) that if you already have Type 2 diabetes, eating whole fruits can help control your blood sugar. And if you burn more calories than you consume, you will probably lose weight — at least for the short term. Vijaya Surampudi, an assistant professor of medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles, Center for Human Nutrition, said that as a result, the vilification of fats led many people — and food manufacturers — to replace calories from fat with calories from refined carbohydrates like white flour and added sugar. By the 1980s, doctors, federal health experts, the food industry and the news media were reporting that a low-fat diet could benefit everyone, even though there was no solid evidence that doing so would prevent issues like heart disease or overweight and obesity. Myth No. Here’s what they said. Vegans and vegetarians are deficient in protein.

This observational documentary about an aging farming couple on the Icelandic coast unfolds like an elegy to a life lived off the land.

The film unfolds like an elegy to a life lived off the land. As Ulfar, Oddny, their grandchildren and their neighbors herd the sheep down the mountain, they become dark figures chasing cloudy-white blobs across a mysterious, craggy expanse, while their walkie-talkie exchanges crackle eerily on the soundtrack. “The Last Autumn” feels like a missive from another planet, even as it chronicles the most mundane activities of terrestrial life: eating, cooking, farming, tending to animals.

With questions hovering about the financial performance of the news organization, its billionaire owner checked in with senior leaders.

The Post has struggled to expand its subscription business, with fewer paying subscribers last year than the three million it had in 2020, a presidential election year. The Post rapidly expanded after Mr. As he left, a Post employee wearing a red shirt emblazoned with the insignia of The Post’s guild stopped him and asked why the company was laying people off without offering buyouts first, according to the three people with knowledge of the meeting. The editors also discussed the pending sale of the Washington Commanders. But the meeting — with Mr. But on Thursday, he made a rare appearance in the newsroom, joining the morning news meeting for the first time in more than a year.

Washington Post owner and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos made a rare appearance at the paper Thursday, meeting with executive editor Sally Buzbee and publisher Fred ...

And to throw a little more bad news on the pile, Microsoft said Wednesday that it [will lay off](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/18/business/microsoft-layoffs.html) around 10,000 employees — about 5% of its global work force. Gray [tweeted](https://twitter.com/jongraywb/status/1615949626691158017): [the largest round of layoffs in the company’s history](https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/18/amazon-job-cuts-read-the-memos.html).” The company’s HR and stores departments [appear to be most affected](https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/amazon-lay-off-staff-us-canada-costa-rica-by-end-day-2023-01-18/), but there were also [a significant cuts at ComiXology](https://www.cbr.com/comixology-gutted-amazon-layoffs-former-staff-worry-service-future), the digital comics platform Amazon [bought in 2014](https://www.wired.com/2014/04/amazon-buys-comixology/). (According to LinkedIn, ComiXology [had around 100 employees](https://www.linkedin.com/company/comixology/).) Artist, writer, and illustrator Jonathan H. The Post has struggled to grow its subscription business, with fewer paying subscribers last year than the three million it had in 2020, a presidential election year. As [Bezos] left, a Post employee wearing a red shirt emblazoned with the insignia of The Post’s guild stopped him and asked why the company was laying people off without offering buyouts first, according to the three people with knowledge of the meeting. Bezos responded that he was at The Post to listen, not answer questions, and underscored his commitment to The Post’s journalism. Post employees could be forgiven for thinking the timing feels ~a little weird~. [shuttering AmazonSmile](https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/19/23562036/amazon-closing-amazonsmile-charity-platform-announcement), the charity program that allowed me to donate countless cents to my children’s school. [new Financial Times piece](https://www.ft.com/content/99452cdd-5532-4c6a-85e6-733c2fde3e9c): [reports](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/19/business/media/jeff-bezos-washington-post.html): [made a rare appearance](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/19/business/media/jeff-bezos-washington-post.html) at the paper Thursday, meeting with executive editor Sally Buzbee and publisher Fred Ryan.

At a Brooklyn club, fans of the Netflix series “Wednesday” showed off their takes on the pigtailed heroine's signature moves in a midnight competition.

Bombarding the stage, a gang of college girls screamed along to the lyrics of Rihanna’s “We Found Love” while a couple of guys loitered at the bar building up their liquid courage. Ortega’s [moves](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GA7Kl7XWOmM) while imitating her character’s signature cold stare. [Jenna Ortega](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/23/arts/television/jenna-ortega-wednesday-netflix.html), the 20-year-old former Disney star who plays Wednesday, choreographed the moves herself by studying footage of goths dancing at clubs in the 1980s and borrowing ideas from performers like [Bob Fosse](https://www.nytimes.com/1987/09/24/obituaries/bob-fosse-director-and-choreographer-dies-a-veteran-at-13.html), [Siouxsie Sioux](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjvvK-Rj0WI), [Lene Lovich](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnIJOO__jVo) and [Denis Lavant](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rop2r0PASlM). The dance floor, in other words, turned into the kind of scene that Wednesday Addams would despise. [organizer](https://www.clubharderbetter.com/) (an outfit called Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger Presents) had promoted the party with a program that promised a playlist of “sad girl bops,” which ended up meaning songs by Lana Del Rey and My Chemical Romance. The D.J., Cip Cipriano, who wore a Wednesday Addams muscle shirt, said: “I was a gay guido from Yonkers who had to move to San Francisco. [dance](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NakTu_VZxJ0) that Wednesday performs in the show’s fourth episode at a prom-like event at [Nevermore Academy](https://addamsfamily.fandom.com/wiki/Nevermore_Academy#Rave'N), a boarding school for outcasts, vampires and werewolves. Ariella Van Cooten, 31, a middle-school teacher who had dyed her hair pink and green, said: “Now it’s cool to be goth because of the show. [Goo Goo Muck](https://www.billboard.com/pro/netflix-wednesday-dance-scene-goo-goo-muck-synch-worth/)” began to thunder through the club’s loudspeakers. The Quantum dance floor became a fashion runway for all manner of Wednesday Addams costume interpretations: outfits featured black-and-white socks, polka dot shirts, leather coats, metal skull earrings, thick-soled boots with silver spider buckles and brothel creepers. A big screen behind the D.J. On a Brooklyn street dotted with auto repair garages, a line of young women wearing black ruffled dresses, black chokers, little black backpacks and Doc Martens waited in the cold outside a club called Quantum on Friday night.

Gambling companies have dreamed for decades of operating full-scale, Las Vegas-style casinos in New York City. Now, state authorities are on the brink of ...

[[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]). (It’s OK.) How does one of the more talented rosters in the N.F.L. Climate change is testing the state’s ability to capture water. In exchange, the union has exerted considerable pressure on state leaders to fast-track casinos around New York City, often working closely with gambling companies themselves. In essence, New York is looking for a bigger piece of the action. Now, state leaders are using the same logic that they applied to upstate casinos to try to accelerate and all but ensure the expansion of gambling in and around New York City. And it did not guarantee that the licenses would be granted. In the years that followed, casinos opened in the Catskills; outside of Albany; and elsewhere in upstate New York. There is a long history of politicians from Nevada to Louisiana using legalized gambling to try to stimulate the economy and boost public revenues. But until recently, state law and a wall of local opposition short-circuited any serious planning for downstate casinos. Gambling companies have dreamed for decades of operating full-scale, Las Vegas-style casinos in New York City.

Frankenstein's Monster Is Drunk and the Sheep Have All Jumped the Fences” and “Heaven,” two plays in Origin's 1st Irish Festival, offer two very different ...

“On the todd” means single; “up the duff” means pregnant; a “ride” is having sex; and so on. A young man who looks like Jesus is a guest at the wedding, and now Mal has fantasies about him, too. In their 50s, the parents of a 19-year-old daughter who has never gotten along with Mairead, they haven’t slept together in quite some time. With a large wooden cupboard as the movable centerpiece of its no-frills set (by Ryan Dawson Laight, who also designed the costumes), the play is the story of their marriage: passion, heartbreaks and all. The soulful, well-meaning monster (Rhodri Lewis) and his brisk, nameless wife (Nicky Harley) spend years finding a way to fit into their tiny village, whose populace is represented by the much-doubling Vicky Allen and Chris Robinson. On the smallest stage at 59E59 Theaters, with a nimble and inventive cast of four, it is a fast-moving comedy that dares to tip into poignancy. Never mind that by his own account he is “constructed from the dismembered body parts of a number of different corpses”; their sex life is fabulous. It’s an out-of-nowhere switcheroo, and it feels utterly imposed. And in their imaginations, they create together a whole secret world. But they get on with life, and with loving each other. The monster is nestled in a glacier when the villagers dig him out, frozen but not dead, because he was undead already. And in “

An 86-year-old author has a few rules to live by even when the trials of getting older make it easy to complain.

[here](https://www.nytimes.com/newsletters/well). Yet for the past half century, research has steadily emerged demonstrating that exposure to gas stoves can be harmful to humans — and has been linked to childhood asthma. Rumors have been swirling on social media that drinking coffee in the morning without any food can damage your gut — or even contribute to other ills such as acne or anxiety. “Give it a try, whatever it is,” she said. Before she refuses something — a dinner, an art show, buying a leather jacket — she asks herself: “Is it that I can’t do it, or I won’t?” Saying “yes” as often as you can, she added, “is in effect saying ‘yes’ to life — being curious and exploratory, being part of community.” Magnusson told me that the older she gets, the more she can vividly recall the things she has said “yes” to, just when she was on the verge of saying no, and how those experiences have made her life richer. Volunteer to read to children at your library, or sign up for an organization like Big Brothers Big Sisters. “There seems to be no other choice than to see every nuisance as something that I must find a way to cherish,” she said. “You cannot stop the passing of time and how it affects your body, but you can work to keep a clear and positive mind,” she said. “Because, unfortunately, there’s quite a bit of age segregation in our culture.” “You can be young upstairs in your head even if your joints creak.” Here are her top three tips.