It’s not just for journalists anymore Researchers examining the thousands of pandemic studies of SARS-CoV-2, Covid-19 and related fallout have concluded some scientists might have become as fixated as journalists on attracting […]
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This is us
Rise of the extra-wide home sapiens If you looked in the mirror recently and saw someone too big looking back, don’t worry. The World Obesity Foundation is now reporting the world population […]
Symbiotic epidemics
After the discovery that physical fitness greatly improves the effectiveness of Covid-19 vaccines, South African doctors are saying exercise “should be encouraged by greater public health messaging.” Good luck with that. The […]
Unfit city
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 […]
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 […]
