Yasmin Tayag

New York, United States

Staff writer @theatlantic on food, health, science. Chaotic neutral, power forward, good cook, threatening aura. Rep: @aevitascreative 🇵🇭🇨🇦

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How to Wish You Were 66 Instead of 35

1 week ago | theatlantic.com | Natalie Brennan |Yasmin Tayag

Listen1.0x0:0037:08We don’t often talk about the benefits of aging. Karen Adams has a different perspective. From new beginnings to menopausal zest, the director of the Stanford Program in Menopause & Healthy Aging discusses what women can look forward to as they age up. How do you think about aging? Please leave us a voicemail (at 202-266-7701) with your name, your age, and your answers to the following questions:What aspects of aging are you nervous about?
How to Defy Death

2 weeks ago | theatlantic.com | Natalie Brennan |Yasmin Tayag

Listen1.0x0:0037:39Humans have always tried to prolong life and battle mortality, but what do the current influx of biohackers reveal about this era of individual responsibility? Timothy Caulfield, a professor and the research director at the Health Law Institute at the University of Alberta, studies how health and science are represented in the public sphere.
America Is Done Pretending About Meat

1 month ago | msn.com | Yasmin Tayag

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The Return of Meat

1 month ago | theatlantic.com | Yasmin Tayag

Making America healthy again, it seems, starts with a double cheeseburger and fries. Earlier this month, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. visited a Steak ’n Shake in Florida and shared a meal with Fox News’s Sean Hannity. The setting was no accident: Kennedy has praised the fast-food chain for switching its cooking oil from seed oil, which he falsely claims causes illness, to beef tallow.
Introducing: How to Age Up

1 month ago | theatlantic.com | Yasmin Tayag |Natalie Brennan

Listen1.0x0:002:30In the new season of The Atlantic’s popular How To series, co-hosts Yasmin Tayag and Natalie Brennan explore the cultural gamification of aging, the obsession with defying this inevitable process, and how we might shift our understanding of aging to embrace the beauty of being mortal. Just as “leveling up” is a positive notion, How to Age Up challenges listeners to consider how we all, regardless of our specific age, might live better.
What an ‘America First’ Diet Would Really Look Like

2 months ago | theatlantic.com | Yasmin Tayag

For a moment, the threat of guac-ocalypse loomed over America. Had President Donald Trump’s proposed tariffs on Mexico and Canada gone into effect, the prices of avocados and tomatoes would have skyrocketed in the approach to Super Bowl Sunday. Trump may be bluffing about his willingness to start a trade war, but the grace period he negotiated with those nations lasts just 30 days. Yesterday he said that he would announce tariffs on even more countries—he didn’t specify which—in the coming week.
The Last Days of American Orange Juice

2 months ago | theatlantic.com | Yasmin Tayag

Whenever my mom comes to visit, she scolds me for not having orange juice in my fridge. “What about your health?” she asks, to which I reply: “What about my bank account?”As in many families, orange juice was always on the breakfast table when I was growing up. It was affordable, delicious, and full of vitamin C. (The high levels of sugar were considered less of a problem at the time.) But orange juice isn’t so cheap anymore.
ADHD’s Sobering Life-Expectancy Numbers

2 months ago | msn.com | Yasmin Tayag

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ADHD’s Sobering Life-Expectancy Numbers

2 months ago | theatlantic.com | Yasmin Tayag

When I was unexpectedly diagnosed with ADHD last year, it turned my entire identity upside down. At 37, I’d tamed my restlessness and fiery temper, my obsessive reorganization of my mental to-do list, and my tendency to write and rewrite the same sentence for hours. Being this way was exhausting, but that was just who I was, or so I thought. My diagnosis reframed these quirks as symptoms of illness—importantly, ones that could be managed.
Americans Have Always Bickered About Milk

Jan 16, 2025 | theatlantic.com | Yasmin Tayag

This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to contextualize the present and surface delightful treasures. Sign up here. For such a ubiquitous beverage, milk is surprisingly controversial. In recent years, the drink—appetizingly defined by the FDA as the “lacteal secretion” of cows—has sparked heated disputes about its healthiness, its safety, and, with the proliferation of milk alternatives, what it even is.