Do you love your body? When you look in the mirror do you like what you see? Or are you like most women, 91% of whom are unhappy with their bodies? Research shows that body dissatisfaction is a prominent risk factor in the development and maintenance of eating disorders, but being positive about your body…
In an era of vanishing cultural authority and ever-abbreviated attention spans, being called relevant is one of the best compliments a work of art can get. We’ve always celebrated art that seems to speak to our political and cultural moments, but these days — when the news relentlessly inundates us — art can feel like…
Last Updated November 17, 2023 (originally published January 11, 2022) The past few years have seen a dramatic shift in how, when and where people work, as many employers loosened the rules on who could work from home. Many employees are continually refining workspaces that blur the lines between home, career, life and family. And,…
But in previews, Toossi, 33, still found herself negotiating, and sometimes resisting, the reaction of her audience. In one scene, Elham, a young, fiercely intelligent aspiring medical student, struggles with an oral presentation and splutters to her classmates, in halting English, “I want everyone to know I am not idiot.” The instructor corrects her, and…
In the evolving landscape of weight management, the emergence of drugs like Ozempic, Wegovy and Mounjaro marks a significant shift. These drugs, and others like them, are classified as either GLP-1 analogs or GLP-1/GIP receptor agonists. For the sake of simplicity, in this blog they are referred to collectively as “GLP-1 drugs” or “GLP-1 medications.” …
It’s 6:15 a.m. and you are five minutes into your first run in weeks. The temperature is perfect and the sun is just emerging, turning the sky into a stained glass masterpiece. Then you feel a twinge in your knee stepping onto a curb. Was there a click? It aches a little, but not badly….
Dr. Lynn Herrmann earned her PhD in community health – health behavior with a kinesiology focus. She also has an MPH with a health promotion concentration. As a professor at Northern Illinois University, she conducts research on physical-activity promotion and teaches health promotion courses at the graduate and undergraduate levels. Dr. Herrmann is an American…
We caught a glimpse of spring this past week here in New York City, when the sun busted out and temperatures flirted with, though couldn’t quite commit to, the 60s. Chilling rain has returned, but the brief respite proved that spring will be back. Eventually. Meantime, let’s talk soup. After a winter of nubby bean…
Key Takeaways Nearly 1.8 billion adults worldwide are at risk of disease from not doing enough physical activity. While that represents an approximate 5% increase from 2010 to 2022, there is some good news and lessons to be learned. Almost half of the world’s countries have made some improvements in the past decade, and 22…
ON A WARM September afternoon in subarctic Finland, the architect Laura Mattila kneels in the grass beside a sauna that she and Mikko Merz, her 49-year-old partner in life and work, built eight years ago in the factory town turned artists’ colony of Fiskars, an hour’s drive west from Helsinki. Mattila, 40, doesn’t mention the…