There’s no debate: smoking and nicotine are not good for your health. Unfortunately, that knowledge doesn’t make it any easier to quit smoking.

As a psychiatrist who specializes in addictions, I understand the challenges of quitting a substance as addictive as nicotine. That’s why I’m sharing information about nicotine withdrawal and how to manage the discomfort that comes with it.

Most milk found in grocery stores in the United States undergoes a type of processing called pasteurization. Technically, this makes milk a processed food. But while ultra-processed foods are linked to health issues, processed food doesn’t always mean unhealthy. In some cases, processing even makes food safer!

Take milk, for example. Since milk pasteurization became the norm over 100 years ago, it’s “greatly reduced milk-borne...