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Can pregnant women eat hot dogs?

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Dieting had turned me into a cranky food-obsessed bore, but I didn't realize how much it affected my family life until I switched over to intuitive eating.

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Long before WW released its controversial Kurbo app, I was the only kid at my meetings—where adults berated themselves for gaining a quarter of a pound.

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