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Melissa Park | Associate Graphics Editor

The skinny drug that wasn’t — the truth about Ozempic | Fact Check

Sarah Ahuja March 26, 2025
There’s a new currency in the beauty economy, and it isn’t discipline or deprivation — it’s a prescription. 
Mandile Mpofu | Graphic Artist

A year later, we’re still stuck in the age of Ozempic | On the Record

Addison Schmidt March 27, 2024
Even with the press, the prime-time advertisements and the slew of high-profile articles, those who need weight loss medication simply cannot get it, and it does not seem like that’s going to change.
Alexia Nizhny/DFP STAFF

EDITORIAL: The toxicity of tabloids can be lessened with respect, empathy

Editors March 29, 2021
Tabloids will never be fully ethical or accurate, but we can try to be respectful.
Alexia Nizhny/DFP STAFF

Let Your Hair Down: Incorporating movement into our daily lives

Hannah Bohn March 1, 2021
Exercise is a physical, personalized form of self-expression. It should be unique to your body and focus on what makes you feel energized, inspired or just a little more radiant.
Alexia Nizhny/DFP STAFF

Let Your Hair Down: It’s time to rethink the way we view weight loss and habit formation

Hannah Bohn February 23, 2021
Everyone deserves to feel comfortable in their own skin. We are all worthy of moving freely throughout the world without feeling physically constrained by a negative relationship with food and our bodies.
Abbigale Shi

Mind Your Business: Judging jargon — the inaccessibility of information

Abbigale Shi October 5, 2020
Besides a few circumstances, jargon is ultimately a tool that oppresses those without power and makes it harder for people to create a more equitable system and escape this cycle.
PHOTO BY EMILY ZABOSKI/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

TAMOLA: About Weight Watchers

Katie Tamola October 27, 2014

You know those Pinterest quote boards or your sorority sisters or whatever who talk about loving wildly and doing everything to the extreme and living in the moment and all. You know, that stuff. That’s...

MARK: Excuse me for being fat

Daily Free Press Admin March 27, 2013

When I was in high school, I had a friend who had a habit of making bad decisions. I remember one of my friends was trying help her understand why she kept doing things that made her unhappy and he finally...

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