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Food behaviors changed a lot during the Covid-19 pandemic. Our study reveals what happened

Frontiers

ka Smutná, Barbora Duží, Meike Janssen, and Jan Vávra write about how our food behaviors have changed during Covid-19, and how those behaviors depend on where we live and who we are. Food awareness, whether meals were missed and other aspects of food anxiety, diet and health were also covered.

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Machine learning and knowledge engineering uncovers significant role of elevated blood glucose in severe Covid-19

Frontiers

Yet the role that glucose plays in the progression of the disease and the importance of managing glucose levels in the aging population, people with diabetes and the general public, was unclear. Unless otherwise noted, you can republish articles posted in the Frontiers news blog — as long as you include a link back to the original research.

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Uniting generations for a sustainable future: Insights from the 2023 Villars Symposium

Frontiers

The blog, Five traits to look for in a Systems Leader , explains more about what this concept is and represents. The Villars Symposium unites high school-aged youth and sustainability experts worldwide to address urgent global challenges.

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The Eisenhower Principle

The Health Care Blog

For example: Employer-sponsored health insurance tax preference (WWII) Hill-Burton Act (1946) Medicare/Medicaid (1965) Federal HMO Act (1973) Stark Physician Self-Referral Law (1989) DGRs (1983) & RBRVS (1992) CHIP (1997) Medicare Modernization Act (2003) Affordable Care Act (2010).

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Global Warming and Disease

The Health Care Blog

Climate change not only leads to northward shifts, but expanded species diversity, accompanied by shorter migratory routes. Spring migrations are now taking place earlier, with age classes, species and flyways significantly altered. Both spell greater mixing and exchange of viruses across avian species.

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Get Ready for (Healthcare) Microgrids

The Health Care Blog

Its workforce is aging and burnt out. Our power plants and transmission lines are aging badly, we have a phobia of nuclear that is also starting to apply to coal as well, climate change is throwing more extreme weather at us, and many of the renewable options (solar, wind, geothermal) are not quite ready for prime time yet.

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Developing a Well Being Economy

Sheffield DPH

Does your economic story talks to big macro trends – demography, geopolitics, mobility, ecosystem, health, tech, governance shifts. Blogged on that extensively over the years. Blogged on that extensively over the years. See this blog [link]. This from Marmot team on the health of hidden workers is also good.