
Everything You Know About Obesity Is Wrong
Years from now, we will look back in horror at the counterproductive ways we addressed the obesity epidemic and the barbaric ways we treated fat people—long after we knew there was a better path.
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Years from now, we will look back in horror at the counterproductive ways we addressed the obesity epidemic and the barbaric ways we treated fat people—long after we knew there was a better path.
Michael Hobbes Huffington Post Highline Sep 2018 30min Permalink
Welcome to Toke-la-homa.
Paul Demko Politico Nov 2020 Permalink
A profile of YouTube yogi Adriene Mishler
He’s an expert on Twitter virality, but not on infectious disease. Does he do more help or harm?
Jane C. Hu Undark Nov 2020 Permalink
In Alabama, entrenched poverty and unusual geology have created a public-health disaster.
Alexis Okeowo New Yorker Nov 2020 25min Permalink
A couple, a caregiver, and a promise.
Christopher Solomon GQ Nov 2020 20min Permalink
Prenatal testing is changing who gets born and who doesn’t. This is just the beginning.
Sarah Zhang The Atlantic Nov 2020 35min Permalink
A device connected to my heart could save my life. It could also be hacked.
Jameson Rich OneZero Nov 2020 Permalink
As the country heads into a dangerous new phase of the pandemic, the government’s management of the P.P.E. crisis has left the private sector still straining to meet anticipated demand.
Doug Bock Clark New York Times Magazine Nov 2020 25min Permalink
“With mood disorders on the rise during the COVID-19 pandemic, people who’ve never experienced mental health issues are enduring some of the emotions I feel almost every day of my life. Maybe that’s why I can finally tell my story.”
Geoff van Dyke 5280 Nov 2020 15min Permalink
At a laboratory in Manhattan, researchers have discovered how SARS-CoV-2 uses our defenses against us.
James Somers The New Yorker Nov 2020 30min Permalink
A mother’s fight to save a Black, mentally ill 11-year-old boy in a time of a pandemic and rising racial unrest.
Hannah Dreier Washington Post Oct 2020 Permalink
Data is the lifeblood of a functioning government. Over the past four years, the Trump administration has destroyed, disappeared, or distorted vast swaths of the information the state needs to protect the vulnerable, safeguard our health, and alert us to emerging crises.
Samanth Subramanian Huffington Post Highline Oct 2020 50min Permalink
“I watched my friend dying on Facebook. But it was all a GoFundMe scam.”
Sarah Treleaven OneZero Oct 2020 25min Permalink
The rare Chilean soapbark tree produces compounds that can boost the body’s reaction to vaccines.
Brendan Borrell The Atlantic Oct 2020 25min Permalink
Teens are dying by suicide at an alarming rate. Public health officials call it a crisis. Researchers have identified several clusters nationwide. The survivors in this Arizona community are fighting back.
Matthew Shaer Esquire Oct 2020 25min Permalink
How the world’s greatest public health organization was brought to its knees by a virus, the president and the capitulation of its own leaders, causing damage that could last much longer than the coronavirus.
James Bandler, Patricia Callahan, Sebastian Rotella, Kirsten Berg ProPublica Oct 2020 50min Permalink
Partying in Kavos during the pandemic.
Ben Munster MEL Magazine Oct 2020 Permalink
Nelson Cruz’s family was so sure Judge ShawnDya Simpson would free him, they brought a change of clothes to his hearing. Then everything took an unexpected turn.
Joe Sexton ProPublica Oct 2020 50min Permalink
Forget about the ticks. A pattern of harm follows “Lyme-literate medical doctors.”
Lindsay Gellman Bloomberg Businessweek Oct 2020 15min Permalink
How COVID-19 ravaged Minnesota.
Reid Forgrave Star Tribune Oct 2020 50min Permalink
Over the next decade, the number of elderly homeless Americans is projected to triple.
Fernanda Santos New York Times Magazine Sep 2020 30min Permalink
At work and at home, pregnancy alters the COVID experience.
Lauren Quinn Hazlitt Sep 2020 20min Permalink
On the future of air travel.
Samanth Subramanian The Guardian Sep 2020 25min Permalink
It was once a widely accepted way of explaining why some children struggled to read and write. But in recent years, some experts have begun to question the existence of dyslexia itself.
Sirin Kale Guardian Sep 2020 25min Permalink