Public health authorities, the planners, recommend only modest amounts of Vitamin D, enough to prevent rickets. That’s true but misleading and contributes to public health disasters like the Covid 19 pandemic. It turns out...
Hundreds of millions in the Great Migration are moving toward better opportunities. People “vote” for better governance with their feet, traveling from dysfunctional and less economically free communities to where labor is more highly...
Only 12 percent of American adults are metabolically healthy, study finds (ScienceDaily, November 28, 2018) When hundreds of millions across the U.S. and Europe suffer from chronic conditions caused by poor metabolic health, upper...
Researching a 2014 debate topic on U.S./Middle East policy, costs for Kurdish refugee camp were reported: “U.S. government funding for refugees has reached $2.4 billion.” Building, operating, supplying, and protecting refugee camps can be...
• FDA Delays Emergency Vaccine Approval Until They Finish Evaluating New Bagged Salad Kit (The Onion, Nov. 20, 2020) • Energy Future will be a lot like energy past… • Schools (and Children) Need...
Recent Facebook posts on the Stay Healthy! Research Nutrition & Public Health Policy theme : • A closer look at U.S. deaths due to COVID-19 (Johns Hopkins, Nov. 22, 2020, updated link) The newsletter...
Americans are inflamed! From the campaigns and elections, social and news media anger, lockdowns, and the battered economy. But what if this inflammation is caused as much by poor nutrition as upsetting news? Studies...
On Facebook I’ve shared dozens of articles on pandemic, public health, and lockdown debates Here is are recent shares: • Irish Scientists and Doctors Inveigh Against Lockdowns (AIER, Nov. 19, 2020) The paper shows...
Military Adventures, Postal Subsidies, Malaria, and Cholera US military commitments after guano (earlier post) turned to subsidizing mail sent across Central American with postal subsidies. The demand for mail and Americans traveling to California...
After months of national and state experiments with lockdowns, leading epidemiologists and public health officials call for shifted to “focused protection.” Better protect those at high risk (usually in elder care homes and with...
