Photo©lopolo/123rf These words have become my mantra lately. A summation of what I wish to focus on as I live my life moment to moment, day by day, year to year. The three work in tandem, each informing and amplifying the others, until together they become an unbroken...

Photo©serezniy/123rf Nearly seven out of 10 U.S. adults now meet the criteria for obesity under a new, more comprehensive definition tested in JAMA Network Open.1 The new standard — previously proposed by an international panel of experts in The Lancet Diabetes &...

Photo©videst/123rf Between Halloween candy, Thanksgiving pies and holiday cookies, the end of the year is often packed with opportunities to consume sugar. But what happens in your mouth during those first minutes and hours after eating those sweets? While you’re...

Photo courtesy Maylin Tu/Next City People Are Painting Crosswalks Across L.A. To Protect Pedestrians by Maylin Tu, Reasons to be Cheerful Painting a crosswalk is cheap and easy. A group of neighbors can paint an entire intersection in one morning for $100 or less....

Artwork©HerasymchukVolodymyr/123r When I was in my early 20s, I became curious about my dreams in a new way. I had had vivid and emotionally evocative dreams as a child. I remember some that were particularly intense and, at times, I was intimidated by all that they...

Photo©aberrantrealities/123rf This summer, at dinner with her best friend, Jacki Barden raised an uncomfortable topic: the possibility that she might die alone. “I have no children, no husband, no siblings,” Barden remembered saying. “Who’s going to hold my hand while...

Photo courtesy Do512, FlickrCC, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Dear EarthTalk: Is Joe Rogan right that the planet is actually cooling right now, and we are not in a global warming crisis? —  Bruce P., via email Many media influencers, including Joe Rogan, a comedian and podcaster on...