Sarah is not going home for the holidays. She plans to read, spend time with her dog, and even participate in a few yoga sessions. The 30-year-old, who uses her first name to protect her family’s privacy, lives in Seattle, just 30 to 45 minutes from her loved ones. Despite the short commute, she enjoyed …
Bill Clark/AP Fight against misinformation: Register for free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. A few days ago, I wrote an article noting that Republican Senate candidate from Georgia Herschel Walker, who faces incumbent Democratic Senator Raphael Warnoff in the Dec. 6 runoff, owes Peach State voters the release of his …
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The alarm bells should ring in Congress: a disease that is already one of the leading killers of Americans is now expected to afflict nearly half of all adults over the next eight years. The disease is obesity. For decades, this was seen as a personal moral failure. Science has proven that to be wrong, …
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The alarm bells should ring in Congress: a disease that is already one of the leading killers of Americans is now expected to afflict nearly half of all adults over the next eight years. The disease is obesity. For decades, this was seen as a personal moral failure. Science has proven that to be wrong, …
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In an effort to tackle the growing prevalence of obesity, the UK government has introduced a number of public health strategies over the years, including changes to the way we label food. For example, the “traffic light” color-coding system, introduced in 2013, aims to make it easier for consumers to know whether or not the …
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Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to date with the most essential news from Texas. Jelynne LeBlanc Jamison makes the same impossible choice every month, when hundreds of children she cannot afford to treat show up at her state-funded mental health agency in San Antonio, desperate for help. help, …
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Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to date with the most essential news from Texas. Jelynne LeBlanc Jamison makes the same impossible choice every month, when hundreds of children she cannot afford to treat show up at her state-funded mental health agency in San Antonio, desperate for help. help, …
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Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to date with the most essential news from Texas. Jelynne LeBlanc Jamison makes the same impossible choice every month, when hundreds of children she cannot afford to treat show up at her state-funded mental health agency in San Antonio, desperate for help. help, …
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