My apologies to the vegetarians, but there's nothing better than a perfectly cooked steak. But could you imagine eating nothing but animal products for the rest of your life? No strawberries or avocados, no bread, not even oil. That's what Zackary Peck and his wife have been doing since April 2024. Peck insists it has not only improved their physical and mental health, but the diet has saved their marriage. He told us the whole story in all its meat-y, protein-y, fatty detail. – Michael Sebastian, editor-in-chief Plus: |
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When his wife's mental-health struggles and his own malaise threatened their life together, the author discovered the joys of a meat-only diet. |
We'd given up smoking, drinking, drugs, late nights, excess, and all the other sins we'd grown fond of, or at least attached to, in adolescence. We had two beautiful children, a roof over our heads, our sobriety, and a healthy approach to exercise. So why did I still feel exhausted physically and aimless mentally, day after day? Why was Alex, my wife, still so often feeling like a downtrodden, energy-sapped failure? I was cooking what I thought was healthy food for every meal. Brown rice. Chicken. Spinach—all the spinach. My spinach consumption rivaled Popeye the Sailor Man's. I thought we were in good shape. What was with the 3:00 p.m. brick wall every day? Why, when we had become the "healthiest" people we knew, did we not feel better? |
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For most of us, the summer heat is license to forgo all formality in the pursuit of comfort. But comfort comes in multiple guises, and there are plenty of occasions when shorts and flip-flops are not—if you care about style—a viable option. In such situations, it pays to know your textiles. Chosen well, summer's best cloths have the power to make dressing up a pleasure rather than a purgatory. Lightweight linens, blends of silk and wool, and even (perhaps counterintuitively) wool itself can be our friends, allowing relaxed layering to deliver style in spades without sacrificing one ounce of ease. As you can see here, it's largely about attitude. The secret, according to Savile Row great and dressmaker to Her Majesty the Queen, Hardy Amies, is this: "A man should look as if he had bought his clothes with intelligence, put them on with care, and then forgotten all about them." Truer words were never spoken. |
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The vote to move the 'Big Beautiful Bill' out of the House Rules Committee was going to be its biggest hurdle prior to its eventual passage. A number of the BBB's alleged Republican opponents are members of that body. Which means we have just had a weekend of sub rosa bargaining with the people who wanted the BBB to be harder on poor people, sick people, and sick poor people. |
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