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Decoding the Labels: Navigating Through the Complexities of Nutrition Labels for Healthier Food Choices

Navigating the supermarket aisles in an attempt to make healthy food choices can be quite complicated. Obesity has become a critical global public health crisis, and post-pandemic, obesity levels have reached unprecedented heights. It is imperative that we empower individuals with the tools to make informed decisions about their food choices. Consumers require clear guidance on how to select healthy products. The current nutrition labeling efforts are inadequate and fail to effectively communicate whether a food item is detrimental to one's health

ResearchRachel WolfeAugust 9, 2023diet, nutrition labeling, health, food health, obesity

Transgender Older Adults: Critical Preventive Health Care is Needed

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine have recognized that older transgender adults have some of the most adverse health outcomes of any marginalized populations in America. These poor health outcomes are not the result of any inherent characteristics of being transgender, but arise from the chronic discrimination, victimization, and social marginalization they experience throughout their lives.

ResearchMaria Pia TissotApril 14, 2023transgender, health, LGBT

Stress and Health

“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” This opening sentence of Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina is not just intriguing, but speaks to the many conditions and experiences that can influence how we live our lives. It likewise reflects the findings of research that focuses on factors that affect vulnerability or resilience to the effects of stressful experiences and the consequences on physical and mental health.

ResearchMaria Pia TissotApril 13, 2023stress, health, books

Lifestyle Elements for Improving Mental and Physical Health: Subjective Sleep Quality is a Common Key Factor

In developed societies, our lifestyles changed rapidly and unexpectedly due to technological advances and more recently, the outbreak of a pandemic. Strategies for maintaining high levels of physical and mental function are even more required in such stressful societies.

ResearchMaria Pia TissotMarch 18, 2023healthy lifestyle, mental health, health

National Wellness Month: The crucial role of wellness in education

It’s National Wellness Month and to mark the occasion, we asked Kevin Hawkins and Amy Burke - authors of The Mindful Teacher’s Toolkit - and Elizabeth Holmes - author of A Practical Guide to Teacher Wellbeing and The Primary Teacher's School Year Planner – on what they believe wellness in education to be.

ResearchMaria Pia TissotAugust 16, 2022wellness, education, self-care, health, mental health

The Conflicting Impact of COVID-19’s Health and Economic Crises on Helping

In light of the fact that both the disaster and business literatures state that helping is critical for recovery from disasters and downturns, our team investigated how economic and health-related aspects of the pandemic impact helping, both for society at large and within the workplace.

Research, Editor's PicksGuest UserNovember 23, 2020COVID-19, economy, health, US election, helping

Extraordinarily uncertain times and the essential need to maintain health and wellbeing

As we all can reflect so far on 2020, it has been an unprecedented year of uncertainty and unpredictability where life has been turned completely upside down. We as a human species around the globe had to learn a new way to live. We had to learn new ways to work, to go to school, to commute, and even a new way to go out and buy groceries.

Editor's Picks, ResearchKimberley SimpsonNovember 10, 2020books, health, wellbeing, COVID-19

The Role Spirituality Plays in Health and Well-Being

A recent special issue of the Journal of Holistic Nursing (JHN) on Spirituality offers insights into the role the spirituality plays in the health and well-being of individuals, families, communities, and populations.

Research, Editor's PicksGuest UserAugust 5, 2020spirituality, health, wellbeing, nursing, holistic, COVID-19

Five reasons why research matters to non-academics

Research is all around us whether we are aware of it or not. While controversy has always made international headlines, I like to think that the thousands of sound scientific studies outweigh the not so reproducible or peer-reviewed. As a non-academic myself, I’ve been swayed by the incredible power research has in informing and influencing my choices in everyday life, my purchases as a consumer, boosting my mental health, and assessing my ballot choices.

Editor's PicksKimberley SimpsonOctober 7, 2019research, health, wellbeing, change