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Health researchers realize Asians ‘not’ a homogenous group 20 Mar 2010 | 06:59 am
The Chronicle ran an interesting story on the failure of racial classifications when discussing health disparities in Asian communities.
Poor May Face Greatest Health Burden. Anyone surprised? 26 Dec 2009 | 09:27 am
Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health recently published a study in the American Journal of Public Health that suggested that poverty and dropout rates may be equally important as smok...
Lincoln U’s Too Fat to Graduate Policy 25 Dec 2009 | 03:25 pm
I went back and forth on how or if at all to write about this story. And in my moment of hesitation, the controversial policy was reversed, well amended. But there are still important questions this d...
There Are No Words… 22 Oct 2009 | 09:55 am
I don’t even know if I should post this, but I guess the 365 Black campaign is working. Who needs greens and yams when we have…McDonalds?
Body Awareness and Historical Trauma 22 Oct 2009 | 09:33 am
There’s some good work happening in the psychology and health worlds around this idea of ‘embodied eating’. This work explores how our consumer culture has deadened our “body sense” or body awareness....
Weight Training The Right Way 18 Oct 2009 | 02:31 pm
I have some shame around the fact that I weight train. It’s a dirty secret that I don’t usually share until I’m sure the person has already decided to like me. Most of the shame stems from my own unre...
Karl Marx and Healthcare 17 Oct 2009 | 09:27 am
Yuna Shin wrote an interesting article over at the Huffington Post about alienation, Marx, and healthcare. Nice to see some analysis around capitalism and health, particularly how worker alienation ha...
McDonald’s Not So Healthy Roots 17 Oct 2009 | 09:00 am
McDonald's can make you this happy? Like most, I boast a certain critical, literate eye for advertising—or, at the very least, it’s hard to surprise me. It’s rare that I find myself shocked at th...
