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There is an old problem in nutrition research: people lie about what they eat, usually without meaning to. Ask how many vegetables or how much soda someone has, and the answer drifts toward what they wish were true. Sewage has no such filter. A growing field can now read the collective diet of a whole…

Leroy Maurice “Mo” Robinson Jr. can’t go anywhere in Harlem without running into someone he knows. For three decades, Harlemites could see him flipping burgers and hot dogs at the corner of 118th Street and Lenox Avenue at Mo’s Famous Burgers. However, that’s all changing in just a few months when Robinson retires on Oct.…