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  But her outfit caused tension at the wedding. "My dress was deemed inappropriate by M's family, and they approached me saying so," she said. "I thought it was because of the slit, but they all said it looked too pale and unacceptable, even though it was a blush pink with bright, almost neon colors on it. "I said sorry, but I didn't have another dress suitable enough for a wedding that I could change into, and M's family seemed mad. I left it at that and went on with my day. The ceremony was beautiful, and I was happy for A and M."Zoe Burke, a leading wedding expert and editor of Hitched.co.uk told Newsweek: "Choosing what to wear to a wedding is a unique fashion challenge as there's a lot to consider when you're putting together your look—and fashion rules have changed. "Firstly, you need to strike that tricky balance between looking your fabulous best but also being appropriate to the occasion. Upstaging the couple is never a go...

  The latest clue as to why our modern diet may be making us sick comes  from Harvard primatologist Richard Wrangham, who argues that the biggest revolution in the human diet came not when we started to eat meat but when we learned to cook. Our human ancestors who began cooking sometime between 1.8 million and 400,000 years ago probably had more children who  thrived, Wrangham says. Pounding and heating food “predigests” it, so our guts spend less energy breaking it down, absorb more than if the food were raw, and thus extract more fuel for our brains. “Cooking produces soft, energy-rich foods,” says Wrangham. Today we can’t survive on raw, unprocessed food alone, he says. We have evolved to depend upon cooked food. To test his ideas, Wrangham and his students fed raw and cooked food to rats and mice. When I visited Wrangham’s lab at Harvard, his then graduate student, Rachel Carmody, opened the door of a small refrigerator to show me plastic bags filled with meat and swe...