
This is the story of one woman's journey to better health in a city with some of the most extreme health disparities in the country. I'm very grateful to MsBigg Shirley for letting me follow and learn so much through her. She's incredible, as you'll read:
https://www.theatlantic.com/…/being-black-in-americ…/561740/
“Within three days, you got an entirely different person. They’re alive, awake, alert, and asking questions, and you’re like, ‘oh hell, what happened here?’”
In which experts help me manage my time and (hopefully) stop procrastinating
Conservatives found life more meaningful in data sets from several countries in the early 1980s, in a nationally representative data set of Americans in 2007, and in data collected between 2010 and 2017. In other data sets, conservatives found greater meaning in life when the measures were taken at the end of every day for two weeks. They were also more likely to feel that their lives had “a clear sense of purpose” at any given moment.
Nitrates have antibacterial properties, and Yolken thinks the preservative might have been altering the microbiomes of the rats and humans. In past research, he and his colleagues found that when people who were hospitalized for a manic episode were given probiotics, they were less likely to be rehospitalized in the next six months.
Women on Web doesn’t ship abortion pills to the United States because as Gomperts told me, in America “there’s such an aggressive anti-abortion movement that will do anything they can to close down services. It could potentially jeopardize all the other work of Women on Web.”
The United States, she said, “should be able to solve its own problems” regarding abortion access. “It’s a very rich country,” she added. “The problem there is caused by the huge inequality in the society. There’s no reason the situation in the U.S. should be the way it is.”
Abbott Laboratories, which makes Similac and other formulas, spent $790,000 on lobbying this year. Their disclosure lists having lobbied the U.S. Trade Representative, among others, on “proposals regarding infant nutrition marketing.”
McKinney people might enjoy this one https://www.theatlantic.com/…/what-to-eat-in-the-te…/562559/
Another reason why it's hard to get wealthy if you're not already
You know you’re in an open office because you’re trying to write a sensitive email while wedged between one coworker making a gynecologist appointment and another picking tuna-fish salad out of his Invisalign.
“Obesity is the last acceptable bastion of discrimination in this country, and people who deal with obesity get treated like dirt,” Scott said. “That’s reflected in these insurance plans.”
“It seems that the French model raises questions about the value of tight regulations imposed by many countries throughout the world."
Have you ever been told you're a "visual learner"? That's probably not true.
The program helps undocumented teens imagine a brighter future, which encourages them to take steps to make that vision a reality (like delay parenthood)
"About half of people stop using lifesaving, cholesterol-lowering drugs called statins six months after being prescribed them. About a fifth of people stop taking antidepressants without even telling their doctors." My final story from South Africa, which I visited last month https://www.theatlantic.com/…/why-people-dont-take-…/556538/


























