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Examining Personal Health Decisions
The Affordable Care Act aims to boost health at the population level by making healthcare affordable and accessible to all. But, even with greater access to healthcare, many aspects of health ultimately rest on individual-level
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How to Help Kids Eat Their Vegetables
Parents Magazine: What parents don’t want their kids to eat their vegetables? In shades of green, red, orange, and even white, vegetables boast many virtues. With little fat and relatively few calories, vegetables pack in
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How to Get Children to Eat Veggies
The Wall Street Journal: To parents, there is no force known to science as powerful as the repulsion between children and vegetables. Of course, just as supercooling fluids can suspend the law of electrical resistance
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A Legend in the Study of Rumination
Susan Nolen-Hoeksema of Yale University, a pioneer in the field of rumination, died in January at the age of 53 following heart surgery. A half dozen speakers — many of them scientific and academic protégés
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Diet or Exercise: Which Matters More for Weight Loss?
Women’s Health: You know you should exercise and eat healthfully to keep your weight in check. The thing is, research suggests that when people devote time to one healthy habit, they spend less time on
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New Frontiers in the Science of Positive Emotions
The notion that positive emotions play a critical role in our well-being is not new. By studying the evolutionary origins of emotions and emotions’ specific effects on our health, scientists are discovering that positive emotions
