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Finding Health At Walmart?
When people think of healthy eating, Walmart does not necessarily make the top of the list. However, we know that Walmart serves customers more than 200 million times per week, with food items making...
View ArticleMETAPHORS WE LIVE BY . . . AND EAT BY
Metaphors We Live By (1980), the well-known book by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson, explores the ways that metaphors structure conceptual experience. They postulate that, “[i]f we are right in...
View ArticleObesity and the Social Network Effect
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJfq-o5nZQ4&list=PLDF49145AFBD42740&index=1&feature=plpp_video] This video demonstrates an important social phenomena that Entertaining Health...
View ArticleWith A Little Health From Our Friends
As part of our research with the NYU Center For Healthful Behavior Change, we examine communication and behavior to better understand how social networks might effect individuals beyond the particular...
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Where There Is Smoke, There Are Tobacco Companies
In the 2009 Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act (the “Act”), Congress mandated the use of new tobacco health warnings. Following enactment of the Act, in June 2011, the Food and Drug...
View Article“We’ve Come A Long Way, Bullies”
Dr Margaret Chan, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), challenged the Tobacco Industry with these words at the keynote address of the 2012 – 15th World Conference on Tobacco or...
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Personal Journal Ecuador: The “Ecological” Constitution
First Installment As part of our coverage of global public health issues, on occasion Ranjit and I will report on personal experiences from trips abroad. We will use our observations to expand on...
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Personal Journal Ecuador: Indigenous Health Practices and Clinic-Based Medicine
Second Installment Like the Rights of Nature chapter discussed last week, the 2008 Constitution also addresses health as a basic right, providing responsibilities and guiding principles for the...
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Personal Journal Ecuador: Biodiversity and Social Cohesion
Final Installment In both the Northern Sierras and Amazon, I experienced a level of social cohesion defined partially though a high density of interconnections between people living in the villages. In...
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Hypertension | The Role of Behavioral Lifestyle Modifications | A Population...
Population Based Strategy for Hypertension Reduction. Graph depicts Systolic Blood pressure distributions in a population with a change in Blood pressure and the % reduction in mortality associated...
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