
How Language Impacts Public Health
Suzie Genyk
I often find myself wondering about the factors that brought an individual to their circumstance, whether it’s chronic disease, addiction, or homelessness that they experience.
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I often find myself wondering about the factors that brought an individual to their circumstance, whether it’s chronic disease, addiction, or homelessness that they experience.
A GPS guides you in the right direction to your destination. Your car beeps if you set off without putting your seatbelt on. These little nudges provide cognitive and environmental structures that makes certain choices easier.
“What is gluten?” Jimmy Kimmel posed this question to pedestrians in Los Angeles ...the majority of people interviewed had no idea. This made for a lot of laughs, but it poses an important question: What is gluten and are their health benefits to avoiding it?
Should you abstain from eating to improve your health? This idea seems counterintuitive, as we primarily get our macro and micronutrients as well as antioxidants and phytochemicals from food, but new research about intermittent fasting proves otherwise.
When I'm exhausted and hungry after a long day of classes and work, sometimes I'll skip the stove and oven and go for a quicker cooking option—the microwave.
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