Planning has disengaged with public health, but evidence points to a link between fast food shops and local obesity With public health moving back into the remit of local government next year, there is a huge opportunity to move towards a more "holistic" understanding of health – yet in many...
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The characters on the train into Philadelphia, while never dull, were more interesting than usual this morning. The woman across the aisle from me wore her hair in a style that could be described best as resembling a termite mound. The ride felt so much like bumper cars that I was tempted to ask the...
Today’s headlines; Paula Dean drops two pants sizes and, based on six years of research in the Pacific Northwest, graduate researchers at Chicago’s School of Anthropology have confirmed that in fact, consultants do eat their young. Observation may be one of our best teachers, but we often ignore what...
I’ve never been mistaken as one who is subtle. Gray is not in my patois. I am guilty of seeing things as right and left and right and wrong. Sometimes I stand alone, sometimes with others, but rarely am I undecided, indecisive, or caught straddling the fence. When I think about the expression, ‘lead...