Foodborne illness: Causes, identification and costs
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Reddit Email A lunchtime salad seems innocuous enough — until a couple days later, when you’re rushing between the bathroom and your sick bed. The culprit? E….
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Gardens at school might boost availability of vegetables at home
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Reddit Email Having a garden at school might influence whether vegetables are available to children at home, a forthcoming study in Preventive Medicine finds. Home fruit and…
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Summer benefit program improved children’s nutrition and food access
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Reddit Email Offering families financial assistance to purchase food in the summer improved school-aged children’s food security by 20 percent and boosted the quality of their diets,…
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Ig Nobel Prizes go to research on employee retaliation, self-colonoscopy and cannibalism
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Reddit Email Burning and stabbing voodoo dolls gives employees who’ve been mistreated by their bosses a feeling of justice, new research finds. Lindie Liang, an assistant professor…
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3 quick tips for debunking hoaxes in a hurricane
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Reddit Email As Hurricane Florence makes landfall in North Carolina, reporters who are covering the storm can expect to contend not only with the weather, but also…
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Dysfunctional or not, families who eat together eat healthier
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Reddit Email Every unhappy family might be unhappy in its own way, but when they sit down together at the table, they’re alike according to one important…
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Covering viral research: Tips from Harvard’s ‘6 french fries’ guy
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Reddit Email Eric Rimm, professor of epidemiology and nutrition at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, wasn’t expecting to become a celebrity/villain overnight. But you…
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Global warming has worsened economic inequality and made some rich countries richer
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Reddit Email Economic inequality across countries has been declining for decades. China’s economic boom has been a big reason, along with technology that has brought energy and…
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US-China trade war: global consequences edition
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Reddit Email The U.S.-China trade war is well over a year on and U.S.-imposed tariffs now cover hundreds of billions of dollars’ worth of goods from China….
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‘Causes’ vs. ‘contributes to’: Strong causal language on product warning labels more effective
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Reddit Email Health warning labels that use strong causal language deter consumers more than labels with weaker language, a new study in the American Journal of Public…
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