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While nearly a quarter of older Americans struggle with excess weight, Medicare and other insurers don’t cover some popular treatments.
By this point, anyone who’s been covering or following COVID-19 knows that several comorbidities substantially increase the risk of complications…
While measles may be the hot topic in the news at the moment for children’s health, it’s far from the…
Content note: This blog post mentions sexual assault. I read (and write) nonfiction all day long, so most of my…
Many young women in recent weeks have walked across a stage in cap and gown to accept their hard-earned high…
Soda taxes, it seems, are gaining some pop. Voters in several U.S. cities in California and Colorado overwhelmingly approved additional…
Obesity in older adults is a very real and growing challenge. Since 1991, there’s been a steady increase in obesity…
As a registered dietitian who has studied obesity prevention and treatment for more than three decades, I was intrigued by…
Calling obesity an “epidemic” is almost a cliche in health reporting, but there is no question that obesity is linked…
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In Los Angeles, the chances of a child developing type 2 diabetes fluctuates by ZIP code, according to Ellen Iverson,…