In its Three Questions, Three Answers series, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health’s Laura Kubzansky discusses the link between optimism and hypertension. Kubzansky, who is co-author of the study, is the Lee Kum Kee Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences and co-director of the School’s Lee Kum Sheung Center for Health and Happiness. Chan… Read More »
There’s a lot to love about every season. But one thing we don’t like is when the weather is dry, windy, or cold and leaves our lips cracked and painful. If any season is particularly harsh on your lips, winter is the worst of the four. Gary Goldenberg, M.D., assistant clinical professor of dermatology at… Read More »
Dr Chris Luke said Irish people in the 1940s, ’50s and ’60s ate a seasonal diet of fresh produce with little or no access to convenience food. He said the elegant black-and-white photos of people’s grandparents on mantelpieces around the country are a timely reminder of the benefits of a more austere lifestyle. The adjunct… Read More »
Neurobiologist Nina Kraus can. At her lab at Northwestern University called “Brainvolts,” she and her colleagues can attach a series of electrodes to your scalp and record the electricity your brain produces in response to a sound. “I can then take that electricity and play it out through a speaker and we can listen to… Read More »
We are what we eat. So it is said. But though we may have some idea of what it is that we eat we don’t quite know what exactly it is. Even for dishes that we eat very often we may know the ingredients but likely will not know the exact proportions. And if we… Read More »