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What Is Adultification Bias?
Instead of fun-filled memories of playing hide-and-seek and roasting marshmallows, Lauren Nicks’ summer camp recollections are less playful and carefree. Rather, they’re overshadowed by instances of something that experts call adultification bias. “I can remember when I was around 5 years old attending a summer day camp in Brooklyn and being More...
How To Lose Belly Fat
Surprise: Everyone has some belly fat, even people who have flat abs. That’s normal. Fat is an essential part of the human body. But too much belly fat can affect your health in a way that other fat doesn’t. Some More...
Looking for More ZZZs? Consistent Activity May Be the Key
April 3, 2024 – Perhaps there is nothing that eludes more people in the world more than sleep. Sleep deficits cross borders and traverse seas, affecting millions across the globe. In the United States, More...
How Therapy Can Help During Life-Changing Events Like COVID
April 3, 2024 — When the COVID-19 pandemic hit 4 years ago, Jenn Kearney felt extra thankful for her years of therapy. The 34-year-old digital communications manager from Boston said her 11 years of More...
Cancer Caregiving From Long Distance
A few days before Leslie Crowder started chemotherapy for breast cancer in Marietta, GA, she received a gift from her mother who was visiting from Philadelphia: a pink silk scarf printed with elephants. “I More...
Should I Get a Second Opinion?
Lynne DeMarsh woke one morning in 2017 with pain and discharge from one nipple. A decade earlier, the Rockledge, FL, resident had had a lumpectomy and radiation therapy for triple-negative breast cancer. But More...
What You Should Know Today
In 1996, Doug Olson learned he had chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), a type of cancer that starts in white blood cells. This cancer often grows slowly, so his doctor decided to watch it and wait to treat More...
Lower-Income Americans at Higher Risk of Death From Excess Salt
April 2, 2024 – Eating food with high amounts of salt has long been linked to a greater risk of high blood pressure and heart disease. But much of the research on salt’s effects have been with middle- and More...
Life With Menopause
By Lori Hewlett, as told to Michele Jordan After teaching elementary school for more than 30 years, I have embraced this season of life with open arms. I know it’s not like that for some, but I have learned More...
Menopause and Anxiety: How to Manage
It’s a regular day in her mid-40s, and Rochelle Pagano is on her way to work. But during the drive to the martial arts studio she runs with her husband on the outskirts of Philadelphia, she senses something More...
