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Opinion | Social media platforms should restrict diet product marketing

By Nina Santucci, Staff Columnist • February 27, 2020

Instagram’s updated restrictions are a step in the right direction for making social media a better environment for its mostly young and impressionable audience and will hopefully lessen exposure to the harmful messages often sent by diet products.

Opinion | Cutting down on diet talk

By Leah Mensch, Opinions Editor • January 5, 2020

We would all benefit from cutting discussion surrounding diet and weight from conversation.

Opinion | 5 reasons you shouldn’t worry about the freshman 15

By Leah Mensch, Opinions Editor • June 28, 2019

You shouldn’t ruin your first year of college worrying about the freshman 15, especially when there really isn’t evidence to support it in the first place.

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