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Fat Is Not the Problem—Fat Stigma Is

WEBLike the “fact” that fat is a primary driver in metabolic disease. Or that weight loss prolongs life or improves health. None of this is true. Dogma, myths, and prejudices …

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Health Care Professionals Make Mistakes, and That's Okay

WEBHealth Care Has a Trust Issue . An estimated 98,000 people die every year as a result of medical errors in hospitals. Despite progress being made to make it easier …

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How Well Can a Genetic Test Predict Your Future Health

WEBMyriad Genetics has launched a commercial polygenic test that estimates breast cancer risk for women. HealthLytix and Dash Genomics have developed a …

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American Health Care Is Sick—and Its Workers Are, Too

WEBHealth care is a big business, and our system reimburses hospitals and health care workers for caring for the sickest people rather than healthiest ones. This process depletes …

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Population Health: How We Can Cure What’s Ailing Health Care

WEBPopulation health is a model for improving patient care quality and experiences while reducing costs. It focuses on all the determinants of health, including …

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Why Would Hospitals Forbid Physicians and Nurses from Wearing …

WEBMany hospitals worldwide have already mandated that health care workers wear a mask at all times while working, even when not in a patient’s room, and there are …

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Is an Optimistic Mind Associated with a Healthy Heart

WEB“Health is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity.” — World Health …

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5G Is Coming: How Worried Should We Be about the Health Risks

WEBKenneth R. Foster, PhD, PE, is an emeritus professor of bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania, and has been involved in studies of health and safety …

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How Designers Can Improve Health Care For Everyone

WEBDesigners are bridges between the different types of people with a stake in our health care system: patients, clinicians, engineers and business people. Design is …

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Antioxidant Supplements: Too Much of a Kinda Good Thing

WEBVitamin C is an antioxidant. Antioxidants are good for you. Drink this, it will make you feel better. In fact, in the long run, it might make you feel a whole lot worse. …

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Psychiatrists Must Face Possibility That Medications Hurt More …

WEBIt is time for mental-health practitioners in the U.S. and elsewhere to come to grips with the possibility that medications are doing more harm than good. Further Reading:

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Cholesterol and Controversy: Past, present and Future

WEBToday, it is estimated that 50% of the American population have cholesterol levels that fall outside the accepted healthy range, and the prevalence of cardiovascular …

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Oil spill's human health impacts might extend into the future

WEBThe dangers also seem to extend beyond those working directly on the clean-up efforts, noted the authors of a June 2010 Institute of Medicine (IOM) report on …

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But the Cheetos bag said they were healthy! Evaluating diet and …

WEBOn the Cheetos package are the words “0 grams trans fat.” They must be healthy, right? Grocery store packaging is one of the main ways that …

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How Do You Distinguish between Religious Fervor and Mental …

WEBAs a mental health provider, I don’t believe it’s my job to cast judgment on patients’ religious beliefs. It’s my job to use medical evidence to evaluate and treat …

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Why We Need to Abandon the Disease-Model of Mental Health …

WEBWe need to place people and human psychology central in our thinking. Psychological science offers robust scientific models of mental health and well-being, …

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Beyond Resveratrol: The Anti-Aging NAD Fad

WEBThe NAD story took off toward the end of 2013 with a high-profile paper by Harvard's David Sinclair and colleagues. Sinclair, recall, achieved fame in the mid-2000s …

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The International Politics of Gut Health

WEBOur research findings help to explain how factors like national and local politics, immigration policies and the economy impact the health of people before and …

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Mental Illness Is Far More Common Than We Knew

WEBEpidemiologists have long known that at any given time, roughly 20 to 25 percent of the population suffers from a mental illness, which means they experience …

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How Microbiomes Could Save the Planet

WEBWith antibiotic resistance on the rise, the earth's rivers and water sources suffering from chronic levels of pollution, and industrialized farming damaging …

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The Real Link Between Creativity and Mental Illness

WEBLet's dive in. The Real Link Between Creativity and Mental Illness. In a recent report based on a 40-year study of roughly 1.2 million Swedish people, Simon Kyaga …

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Do You Have a Healthy Personality

WEB1. Credit: Tim Robberts Getty Images. "Healthy personality is a way for a person to act, guided by intelligence and respect for life, so that personal needs are …

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