If spending more time at home due to COVID-19 has meant less time wearing shoes (or sporting your favorite pair of slippers, sandals, or flip flops), you may be experiencing more foot pain than usual. Or, if you’ve added at-home workouts to your schedule, not wearing the proper footwear or working out barefoot more often […]
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I'm Spending Thousands to Get My Kid College Admission
When the news broke about the college admissions cheating scandals, I laughed at the ridiculousness of it all. Then, it hit me that there is a possibility other parents like Felicity Huffman, Lori Loughlin, and the others haven’t been caught yet — and are still “competing” for the same few college admission slots. AKA the same few […]
‘Obamacare’ shapes opioid grant spending
With Republicans and Democrats joining forces again in a bipartisan effort to target the U.S. opioid crisis, an Associated Press analysis of the first wave of emergency money from Congress finds that states are taking very different approaches to spending it. To a large extent, the differences depend on whether states participated in one of […]
The 32 surprising results of spending ten-days on a high-fat diet
From better sleep to a flatter stomach and a more sculpted face: The 32 (very) surprising results of spending ten-days on a high-fat, no carb diet Tired of being tired, Victoria Woodhall tried a radical ten-day eating plan This involved eating plenty of high-fat foods while ditching all possible carbs As featured on Get The […]
1996 to 2013 Saw Large Increase in Diabetes Spending
THURSDAY, July 5, 2018 — In 2013, $101 billion was spent in the United States on diabetes, almost a three-fold increase since 1996, according to a study published in the July issue of Diabetes Care. Ellen Squires, M.P.H., from the University of Washington in Seattle, and colleagues estimated health care spending on diabetes from 1996 […]