This past year in lockdown is about to be revealed as the longest cuffing season ever. Especially now that, with the promise of a vaccinated summer, plenty of those ambiguous-looking situationships you’ve seen in your feed are set to expire. Likewise, if you’re someone who partnered up in the pandemic, you might understandably have some…
Humans Will Require Assisted Reproduction, Mechanical Wombs
From 1973 to 2011, men experienced a 50% to 60% decline in sperm counts, according to a 2017 study by Shanna Swan, Ph.D., an environmental and reproductive epidemiologist at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, and colleagues.1 For more than two decades, Swan has been warning of an impending fertility crisis,…
Why Addressing Health-Care Disparities Starts With Language
Good health is more than just physical—it also includes the simple components of day-to-day life that influence our health. Physical health, mental health, where and how we live, and how we perceive one another all come together to shape our individual health-care journeys. While these social influences and environmental factors play a role in our…
Americans Are Getting Quite Plump During Lockdown
It was about one year ago, in spring 2020, when the jokes about the “quarantine 15” weight gain began making the rounds.1 But, one year later, one study2 shows that this estimation may be slightly lower than reality. According to the Trust for America’s Health State of Obesity 2020 report,3 42.4% of U.S. adults are…
Why Everyday Sustainability Activism Starts With You, the Individual, Rather Than Industry
From a young age, kids are typically primed to care about the Earth (think: recycling is good; littering is bad). But somewhere along the way of growing up, that willingness to participate in advocacy and protection initiatives for the Earth gets disrupted—and for many people, largely back-burnered—often only revisited out of convenience or for improved…
Study Found Toxin from GM Crops is Showing up in Human Blood
A new study is causing fresh doubts about the safety of genetically modified crops. The research found Bt toxin, which is present in many GM crops, in human blood. Bt toxin makes crops toxic to pests, but it has been claimed that the toxin poses no danger to the environment and human health; the argument…
The Surprising Relationship Between Gut Health and Disordered Eating
Eating disorders (EDs) are complicated; recovery, even more so. Not only can they be difficult to treat, but eating disorders (unlike some other mental health conditions) affect the body as well as the mind. I’ve experienced this firsthand, and I’ve had to heal my whole self in order to recover fully—including, surprisingly, my gut. Throughout…
The Future for Silver Jewelry Suppliers is Online
Like any major world event, COVID-19 has wreaked havoc on the global economy, causing shutdowns of trade and commerce that will take years to recover from. Still, as we have seen with other pandemics and global crises, such as the SARS outbreak in the early 2000s, the economy rebounded in a big way before leveling…
COVID is a Vitamin D Deficiency Pandemic
Though medical scientists have known forever that Vitamin D is important because we are often short of it, health officials played stupid from before the pandemic, when it was in the planning stage, to the present day even though millions have died. It used to be thought that most healthy individuals get all the vitamins……
Now’s the Time To Make Room in Your Home for Sustainable Habits—Here’s How
The home is a critical space for being able to recharge and relax, and that’s important—especially while living amid such stressful, traumatic, and isolating pandemic times. But since the home is a place where we spend a lot of our time (especially for those in lockdown), many also generate a lot of waste in this…