Difficult as it is to determine what’s popular among U.S. adolescents, the annual “Taking Stock With Teens” survey from investment bank Piper Sandler is about as authoritative as it gets, gauging favorite brands of everything from orthodontics to footwear among thousands of high schoolers for the past 22 years.
So when the survey ranked Gen Z social media personalities last week, imagine the collective surprise when the name atop the list — above the likes of Mr. Read More...
It’s no surprise that junk food is low in healthy nutrients and high in ingredients like sugar and salt. But new animal research suggests that a diet high in junk food might harm the kidneys in a similar way to type-2 diabetes.
In the study, published in the journal Experimental Physiology, rats were fed a junk food diet of chocolate bars, marshmallows, biscuits and cheese for eight weeks. Other rats were fed chow that contained 60% fat for five weeks. Read More...
Kanye West is waiting for his turn. He stands back quietly, watching from the sidelines. It’s August 2002 and the producer is in his hometown of Chicago for Jay-Z’s Dynasty Tour. Backstage, he shyly introduces himself to Pharrell. Beyoncé smiles politely. He’s garnered some minor traction, mostly producing tracks for Jay-Z, but his name is far from ubiquitous. He has the kind of anonymity that seems hard to imagine now, especially for someone who just legally changed his name to “Ye. Read More...
