Alaska’s largest city came in below average for fitness in the American College of Sports Medicine’s just-released survey of the health of the 100 largest cities in the United States, and it’s […]
Unfit city
The real problem
More bad news about the long-term effects of the pandemic has emerged from Nationwide Children’s Hospital and Ohio State University, and it isn’t about long-Covid. It’s worse. Publishing in peer-reviewed Clinical Obesity, […]
What matters
While Americans continue to feud over face coverings, a huge new meta-analysis is out pointing to what really drives the burden of Covid-19 in the Western world: obesity and so-called comorbidities. The […]
Cheating death
President Joe Biden might want to believe the nation is facing a “pandemic of the unvaccinated,’‘ but the reality is that the United States is largely facing the same pandemic of […]
The soft Americans
HIGH ABOVE FLYOVER COUNTRY – Encased in a tube full of masked humans carried on the wings of a Boeing 757 some 35,000 feet above the lights of civilization spread around […]
COVID stalks elderly
If you’re an older Alaskan and you’re not doing your best to hide from the SARS-CoV-2 virus these days, you haven’t been paying attention. The seven-day moving average for infections that develop […]
Deadly diet?
With the U.S. government unwilling to impose mandates on obesity – which is implicated in the deaths of more than four times as many Americans as COVID-19 over the course of the […]
Fear fades
While we were away, it appears the pandemic ended in the minds of most even as COVID-19 infection rates surged in many states; American kids grew even fatter; and the National Football League […]
COVID’s best friend
Eighteen months into the worst pandemic of the 21st century, with a newly evolved (or created) pathogen now threatening a miracle prophylactic vaccine, one might think there would finally be some discussion […]
Biggest epidemic
As the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic rolls on with many fretting about how some have chosen to avoid vaccination, the country’s other epidemic remains a largely unmentionable that appears to worry few. Almost […]
