Life Changes
Healing Through Storytelling: Lessons from The Odyssey
The journey of Odysseus in Homer's 'The Odyssey' offers profound insights into healing...
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- Written by: Helen Colby and Meng Li
The best way to protect against the flu is the flu vaccine. But even so, about 60% of Americans will skip getting a flu shot this year.
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- Written by: Paul O'Toole
As our global population is projected to live longer than ever before, it’s important that we find ways of helping people live healthier for longer.
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- Written by: C. Michael White
More than two-thirds of Americans take dietary supplements. The vast majority of consumers – 84% – are confident the products are safe and effective.
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- Written by: Deborah Kesten
We are being cheated nutritionally. Food constitutes a six-part gift, but all we're hearing about is one thing. But this skewed perspective, focusing solely on the physiological aspects of food, has become the norm. I call our one-sided, limited view the Dark Ages of nutrition.
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- Written by: Sebastian Eastham and Steven Barrett
Scientists estimate that each year in the U.S., outdoor air pollution shortens the lives of about 100,000 people by one to two decades.
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- Written by: U. Chicago
Having lunch with your friends may be just as important in keeping you alive as exercising, Linda Waite argues.
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- Written by: Caroline Brooks
The study, with 4,500 heterosexual couples, indicates that having an optimistic partner may stave off the risk factors leading to Alzheimer’s disease, dementia, and cognitive decline as you grow old together.
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- Written by: Texas A&M University
A natural compound in many vegetables called indole may fight fatty liver disease, researchers report.
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- Written by: Vicki McKenna
In ancient Greece, there were temples with rooms to which sick people could retreat. This was a time of quiet introspection, based on the understanding that illness is a sacred space where inner work can be done, so that healing may come from the core of our being.
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- Written by: Weihong Lin and Rakaia Kenney
Since June 2019, 2,711 have been hospitalized and 60 have died due to EVALI (e-cigarette-associated lung injury), the devastating lung disease linked to e-cigarettes.
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- Written by: Linda Geddes
The sky is powder blue, and the sun magnificent, as I stride through glittering grass and fallen sycamore seeds to Dowth, a Neolithic passage tomb in County Meath.
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- Written by: Marco Travaglio
Our brains are extremely rich in fat. Indeed, about two thirds of the human brain is composed of fat, 35% of which consists of essential polyunsaturated fatty acids.
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- Written by: A. Trevor Sutton
Silicon Valley’s newest fad is dopamine fasting, or temporarily abstaining from “addictive” activities such as social media, music, internet gaming – even food.
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- Written by: Edward Jaenicke
American households waste, on average, almost a third of the food they acquire, economists report. This food waste has an estimated aggregate value of $240 billion annually.
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- Written by: Krzysztof Geras
An artificial intelligence tool—trained on roughly a million screening mammography images—can identify breast cancer with approximately 90% accuracy when combined with radiologist analysis, a new study finds.
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- Written by: Jennifer L. Temple
When my daughter was around 14 years old, she began to ask if she could have a cup of coffee in the morning like Mom and Dad.
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- Written by: Barbara Benham
Increases in physical activity tend to be followed by increases in mood and perceived energy level, research finds.
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- Written by: Alisson Clark
When certain patients “teach back” a doctor’s instructions, they’re more likely to stay out of the hospital, according to a new study.
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- Written by: Sarah Avery
Variable blood pressure readings could be an overlooked early warning sign of heart disease, researchers report.
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- Written by: Kristin Samuelson
Daily exposure to bright white light in the middle of the day significantly decreases symptoms of depression and increases functioning for people with bipolar disorder, research shows.
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- Written by: Patti Verbanas
Who’s most at risk for pesticide exposure and how can you keep your kids safe?
