Tag: poverty
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Depression Is “A Normal Brain Responding to Stress or Adversity”
Actual title of the article, quoting the main author of the Nature op-ed. There has been a…
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Height is not genetic – UK’s drastic drop in height due to austerity, poor diet
A few years before the pandemic hit, I did a several posts on studies demonstrating that height…
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Iron supplementation may not cure anemia, unless nutrition is also improved
As many of my readers know, Peat is against supplementing with isolated iron. Aside from the well-known…
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Childhood stress causes mental illness in adults by blunting androgens
Yet another great study solidifying the evidence on just how detrimental early childhood stress is. It has…
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Poverty makes people dumb and prematurely old
A common debate in public policy is whether people slide into poverty because they are stupid or…