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From Bowling Alone to Eating Alone – What the Shift to Take-Out Food Means for Our Social Well-Being and Mental Health

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These life flows included shopping from home, working from home, exercising at home, and other pandemic-era behaviors that are persisting five years later since the pandemic was pronounced as the public health emergency. In fact, Americans shifted many activities to-home as shown in the lower-right quadrant.

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The State of Healthcare in America, State-By-State

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If you live in Massachusetts, Hawaii, and New Hampshire, you win a kind of state lottery for public health and well-being, based on this year’s read of the 2023 Scorecard on State Health System Performance from The Commonwealth Fund. states ranked by a mash-up of health system indicators.

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The Coronavirus Impact on American Life, Part 2 – Our Mental Health

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Exercise with a gym app , do Denise Austin’s indoor walking regime via AARP’s website , or join a yoga group online. Keep on bearing this marathon moment for public health, my friends… I’d love to shout out the original source of this meme as I always do, but I cannot identify it through my usual search processes.

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The She-Cession – a Financially Toxic Side-Effect of the Coronavirus Pandemic

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Home became where our work is, where our school is, where we cook and bake sourdough bread, where we stream entertainment, exercise and like Peloton again, and hunker down. No longer could people even go to Starbucks and use the free WiFi connection as coffee shops were also shut down in the quarantine.

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Slow Food, Slow Medicine: What Italy Can Teach America About Health

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Book I of the eight volumes Celsus wrote covered diet, hygiene, and the benefits of exercise. Translated into English, the two sentences say: Health is the same for everyone, and a right to be spread through Italy. Would that we in America could embrace such a public health message for all.

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Stress Is Playing A Big Role in Consumers’ Food Habits: Food-As-Medicine Update from IFIC

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That net shift was 93% of folks thinking about healthfulness of food (a lot + a little) down to 86% across all consumers. Over 1 in 2 consumers said they felt stressed in the past 6 months (roughly October 2021 through March 2022), with 22% reporting being “very” stressed.

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Healthcare 2030: Are We Consumers, CEOs, Health Citizens, or Castaways? 4 Scenarios On the Future of Health Care and Who We Are – Part 2

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The four stories we generate are: Retail Health For All, starring “The Consumer” DIY Healthcare, starring “The CEO” Fragmentation Meets Bureaucracy, starring “The Castaway,” and, “One World, One Health,” starring “The Health Citizen.” Federal investment in climate and environmental health are part of holistic health policy.

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