Growing up in Jérémie, Haiti, Elsy Dinvil often spent Sunday mornings watching her mother prepare meatballs: first at the market, picking the most marbled fillets she could find, then at home, pulling out a manual grinder to prepare the meat. It was an education in cooking with care. Ms. Dinvil’s mother died in 2018, two…
The post looked simple enough: Kim Kardashian, hair pulled back in a ponytail, posed in front of an M.R.I. wearing scrubs branded with the logo of the medical imaging company Prenuvo. “I recently did this @prenuvo scan and had to tell you all about this life saving machine,” she wrote. The M.R.I. could pick up…
A cross-sector cadre of national and regional stakeholders that share the goal of reversing childhood obesity recently converged in New Jersey, the home state of the philanthropic behemoth Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF). RWJF has invested $500 million to reverse childhood obesity by 2015, with special emphasis on low-income minority children, where the rates are…
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…