Eight months into the global disaster of a lifetime, maybe it is time Americans stop hating on each other and accept that no one has the perfect answer for how to deal […]
The COVID divide
COVID and obesity
New studies are emerging to further define the link between COVID-19 and obesity, and at least one of them offers some hope for the over-weight who catch the disease caused by the […]
Fat’s danger
The way Chinese scientists are portraying obesity in these times of COVID-19, one could almost come to view it as a new chronic disease. “Obesity,” they wrote in a peer-reviewed paper […]
Protect yourself
Evermore the evidence builds that the way to protect yourself from the potentially deadly SARS-CoV-2 virus stalking the planet is to stay as far away as possible from other people, any […]
SES who?
News analysis Almost 100 years ago in a now little read short story titled “The Rich Boy,” the late American author F. Scott Fitzgerald observed that the rich “are different from you […]
The cubicle class
Few ideas are more dear to Americans than the belief that they live in a society free of class, and nothing in modern times has done a better job of putting a […]
We were warned
How long have doctors been warning us about the risks of obesity? Long before the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, they were cautioning against a dangerous epidemic tied to our visibly spreading waistlines. “Will All […]
Forgotten history
Nurse Donna – my late mother – had two favorite home remedies other than chicken soup for almost every disease: fresh air and a saltwater gargle. Until the COVID-19 pandemic erupted, I […]
Olden days
The difference between hunting for your dinner and shopping for it is writ in the reminder of how easy life in the modern Western world. It is so easy most just take […]
Car problems
SEATTLE – When stuck in the often nightmarish, 2019 traffic of this Pacific Northwest city, it is hard to avoid wondering if U.S. federal highway vehicle emission standards didn’t actually help move […]
