Education Freestyle

cited: US News & World Report
New research has found that elderly, overweight people have significantly less brain tissue than their counterparts of a normal weight.
“The brains of obese people looked 16 years older than their healthy counterparts while [those of] overweight people looked 8 years older,” said UCLA neuroscientist Paul Thompson, senior author of a [...]

cited: Time Magazine
With farms popping up everywhere from White House backyards to Brooklyn truckbeds, it’s easy to write off the upswing of modern-day victory gardens and organic produce aisles as a meaningless trend. Unfortunately, it is becoming rapidly more important to look at how much it’s costing us to save money at the grocery store.
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