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US Child Obesity Rates Actually Just as Unnerving as 10 Years Ago
The newest numbers about U.S. obesity trends in the last ten years don’t look great. They just made big news after a press statement by the CDC director and other officials, and the analysis was...
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Science Compared Every Diet, and the Winner Is Real Food
Researchers asked if one diet could be crowned best in terms of health outcomes. If diet is a set of rigid principles, the answer is a decisive no. In terms of broader guidelines, it’s a decisive yes....
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One Man’s Story of Eating-Disorder Recovery (Video)
Brian Cuban spoke recently about being a grown man with bulimia and anorexia nervosa; about the shock it elicits when he brings up his diagnoses, and the childhood relationships and family dynamics...
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World Health Organization: No, Seriously, Stop Abusing Antibiotics (Video)
“The problem is so serious that it threatens the achievements of modern medicine. A post-antibiotic era—in which common infections and minor injuries can kill—far from being an apocalyptic fantasy, is...
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Dead or Meditating?
One of the wealthiest spiritual leaders in India has either been dead or in a transcendental meditative state since January. The Telegraph‘s Dean Nelson reports from New Delhi that a court has now been...
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The ‘Miracle’ Berry That Could Replace Sugar (Video)
As a chef and entrepreneur, Homaro Cantu has a reputation for an avant-garde approach to gastronomy. He believes the answer to one day eliminating sugar from our diets lies in a protein known as...
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The Ice Diet (Video)
When he became determined to lose weight, Dr. Brian Weiner decided to change his eating and exercise regimes. “One of the first changes I made,” explains Weiner, a gastroenterologist in New Jersey and...
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Single-Tasking Is the New Multitasking (Video)
Trying to do too many internet things at once makes it hard to get anything done at all. Tabless Thursday is a vacation from distraction. Courtesy of The Atlantic *Image of “multitasking” via...
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Art Is Vital (Video)
It has been three years since the spectacular video of Lil Buck dancing to Yo-Yo Ma brought jookin—which draws from hip-hop, ballet, jazz, and modern dance—into mainstream consciousness. Ma would later...
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Meats: A Health Hierarchy
In case you’ve not yet purchased your weekend meat, here is a pretty harrowing/empowering case for choosing chicken instead of beef when you can. About a quarter of greenhouse gas emissions come from...
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Stressful Relationships vs Isolation: The Battle for Our Lives
“In your everyday life, do you experience conflicts with any of the following people?” Partner Children Other family Friends Neighbors A Danish health survey asked almost 10,000 people between ages 36...
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Wine Is Healthy. Isn’t It? It is. No? (Video)
James Hamblin prepares to impress his date with knowledge about the health benefits of wine. This article was originally published on www.theatlantic.com *Image of “wine“via Shutterstock
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The Myth of Wealthy Men and Pretty Women
In one illustrious study of love (“human sexual selection”) in 1986, psychologists David Buss and Michael Barnes asked people to rank 76 characteristics: What do you value most in a potential mate? The...
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The Creativity Pill
Neurologist Rivka Inzelberg recently noticed that her patients with Parkinson’s disease seemed to be authoring more novels than older people tend to author. Looking closer, poems and paintings also...
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Most People Think Alzheimer’s Is a Normal Part of Aging (Video)
A multinational survey released today found that 59 percent of people incorrectly believe that Alzheimer’s disease is a typical part of aging. “People misunderstand that Alzheimer’s really is a...
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The Health Benefits of Trees
It is becoming increasingly clear that trees help people live longer, healthier, happier lives—to the tune of $6.8 billion in averted health costs annually in the U.S., according to research published...
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The Recovering Americans and the ‘Top Secret’ Ebola Treatment (Video)
Because Ebola is notoriously incurable (and the strain at large its most lethal), it is overwhelming to hear that “Secret Serum Likely Saved Ebola Patients,” as we did this Tuesday morning from Dr....
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Email Is Ruining Us: A Brilliant Solution
The amount of time we spend on email—and the stress it generates—are unsustainable. Enter the “cool” button. This video was originally published on www.theatlantic.com. *Image of “cowboy” via...
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Robin Williams Lived Intensely
Robin Williams is dead at 63. The comedian carried insecurity and self-doubt with contagious intensity. He was so grandiose and wild that it would’ve irritated audiences to their cores had his eyes not...
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Juice Cleanses: The Worst Diet (Video)
A doctor tries the ever-popular Master Cleanse. Sort of. This video was originally published on www.theatlantic.com *Image of “juice” via Shutterstock
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