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The Secret Life of Austin Mom

See what I did there? I just pulled you in with a sensational headline.    Sensationalism. It seems all too common now. A friend was talking about the dramatic headline some time ago regarding batteries that could cause a house fire. So instead of immediately saying in the headline, that  "Batteries improperly stored could cause a house fire",  the news lead with the headline that something everybody has in their home could cause a fire. It's the way news works now and even unfortunately in medical reporting. It's called sensationalism. I am sure that if you did not know that before, the ongoing political coverage has helped you to understand that  term very well. For example, Women's Health Magazine ran an article "The Scary Mental Health Risks of Going Meatless" based on 2 studies and some anecdotal evidence. According to the Health Letter from the Center for Science in the Public Health (April 2016), one study couldn't be foun...