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Schools closed and went remote to fight COVID-19. The impacts linger 5 years later.
- Home & Family
- March 21, 2025
“These are kids who spent most of their formative years – kindergarten, first grade, second grade, third grade, when you’re supposed to be learning social skills – not learning them. They don’t have those social skills,” Wendy Gonzalez, an elementary school teacher in Richmond, CA. said that as a result of remote learning during the pandemic, many of her students didn’t “know how to talk to each other.”
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The ash left behind by the Los Angeles wildfires might be toxic, experts warn
- Health & Healing
- January 23, 2025
“We know it’s a lot of emotions and feelings going on that you can put down your guard, but you shouldn’t do that. Just be safe. Be careful. Put all the gear you can — at least an N95 mask, gloves — and stay safe. Because you lost your property. But you don’t want to damage also your health in the longer run.” Mohammed Baalousha, professor, environmental health sciences, University of South Carolina.
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What checking your phone first thing in the morning does to your brain
- Featured, Health & Healing
- January 14, 2025
“Grabbing your phone and flooding your brain with notifications, social media feeds, or emails overstimulates your prefrontal cortex, which is responsible for decision-making and impulse control. This barrage of information can lead to mental fatigue before you’ve even gotten out of bed, making your mind feel cluttered and less focused for the rest of the day.”
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U.S. Surgeon General Calls for Cancer Warnings on Alcoholic Beverages
- Health & Healing
- January 7, 2025
“Alcohol is a well-established, preventable cause of cancer responsible for about 100,000 cases of cancer and 20,000 cancer deaths annually in the United States. Yet the majority of Americans are unaware of this risk.” Dr. Vivek Murthy, U.S. surgeon general.
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Secret Santa gives out thousands of dollars to North Carolina residents devastated by Hurricane Helene
- Home & Family
- December 17, 2024
“I think when people go through tragedy, they can lose their house — all their belongings. But what they can’t lose is hope. And maybe we can give a little hope.”
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4 Amazing Benefits At Thanksgiving When Gratitude Can Change Your Brain
- Health & Healing, Uncategorized
- November 25, 2024
A good reminder from Forbes magazine contributor Bryan Robinson about the multiple benefits of practicing gratitude every day of the year: “Studies on happiness corroborate the Dalai Lama’s assessment. Findings show that if you express gratitude, it raises your happiness by 25%. People who consciously count their blessings are happier and less depressed. When you
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How Tech Created a ‘Recipe for Loneliness’
- Home & Family
- November 18, 2024
“I can’t underscore just how powerful it is to have a few moments of authentic interaction with somebody where you can hear their voice and see their face. There is tremendous benefit that comes to each of us from being able to show up for each other.” Dr. Murphy has even previously cited loneliness as an epidemic in our society.
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Baby Walkers Have Caused Injuries and Deaths—So Why Are They Banned in Canada But Not in the U.S.?
- Consumer Alerts, Featured, Home & Family
- October 15, 2024
Did you know that the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) favors a ban on the manufacture and sale of sit-in baby walkers—maintaining they don’t help, but hurt infants learning to walk?
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Toxic chemicals used in food preparation leach into human bodies, study finds
- Featured, Health & Healing
- September 19, 2024
“We’ve got, say, 60 years of research into the migration of chemicals into food from food processing and packaging equipment. It’s been studied very extensively.”
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Nearly two-thirds of supermarket baby foods are unhealthy, study finds
- Home & Family
- August 23, 2024
Don’t count on the baby food aisle at your local supermarket to provide healthy nutritious foods for your child. That’s the takeaway of a new study.
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Practicing gratitude could help you live longer, according to new study
- Featured
- July 18, 2024
Now more than ever, a message worth heeding: “Gratitude is powerful: powerful for happiness, powerful for addressing at least more minor depressive symptoms, powerful for improving health, powerful for protecting against premature death — and it is something that anyone can do.” Dr. Tyler VanderWeele, senior study author, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
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Fatty Foods Before Surgery May Spell Trouble for Your Brain
- Health & Healing
- May 24, 2024
“We’ve shown that an unhealthy diet, even in the short term, especially when it’s consumed so close to a surgery, which in and of itself will cause an inflammatory response, can have damaging results,” said senior author Ruth Barrientos, an investigator in OSU’s Institute for Behavioral Medicine Research and associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral health and neuroscience in the College of Medicine.
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Fluoride exposure during pregnancy linked to increased risk of childhood neurobehavioral problems, study finds
- Featured, Health & Healing
- May 24, 2024
“There are no known benefits to the fetus from ingesting fluoride. And yet now we have several studies conducted in North America suggesting that there may be a pretty significant risk to the developing brain during that time.” That’s the findings of researchers at the Keck School of Medicine at USC.
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No TikTok? No problem. Here’s why you shouldn’t rush to buy your child a phone.
- Home & Family
- May 24, 2024
Carli Pierson writing in USA Today with some thoughtful advice to parents: “Phones and kids should be an ongoing conversation in our homes. We should be talking about the dangers of addiction. We need to teach them that obsessing over other people’s lives, or comparing themselves with another person they may or may not know,
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Ultraprocessed foods linked to heart disease, diabetes, mental disorders and early death, study finds
- Featured, Health & Healing
- March 1, 2024
CNN: “Eating ultraprocessed foods raises the risk of developing or dying from dozens of adverse health conditions, according to a new review of 45 meta-analyses on almost 10 million people.”
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