Bugs Inside: What Happens When the Microbes That Keep Us Healthy Disappear? by Katherine Harmon The human body has some 10 trillion human cells—but 10 times that number of microbial cells. So what happens when such an important part of our bodies goes missing? … “Someone who didn’t have their microbes, they’d be naked,” says […]
Re-engineering the Food System for Better Health
Good food nation According to the Centers for Disease Control, between 1980 and 2006 the percentage of obese teenagers in the United States grew from 5 to 18, while the percentage of pre-teens suffering from obesity increased from 7 to 17. … Obesity is widespread due to our national-scale system of food production and distribution, […]
Florence Nightingale: The passionate statistician
Florence Nightingale: The passionate statistician She brought about fundamental change in the British military medical system, preventing any such future calamities. To do it, she pioneered a brand-new method for bringing about social change: applied statistics. … he statistics changed Nightingale’s understanding of the problems in Turkey. Lack of sanitation, she realized, had been the […]