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Should Women Care If Men Are In A Loneliness Epidemic?

Men Are in a Loneliness Epidemic. Should Women Care? Caring is a tricky word for many women, as it brims with gendered expectations of labor, open availability, and mental load. Let’s look at men by numbers: The vast majority of CEOs are men (in fact, it was only this past April that women CEOs finally outnumbered CEOs named John.); 93% of world leaders are men; 87% of billionaires are men; 84% of all Pulitzer Prizes awarded in the last 100 years went to men. And if we’re painting by numbers, it’s easy to step back and assume that men—especially those privileged across race, class, and ability—are doing well. But this is only part of the picture. In 2017, Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy penned an essay for the Harvard Business Review, where he named loneliness a growing health epidemic. T...

Diabetes: A global epidemic costing billions

On World Diabetes Day, data shows the disease's incidence is declining in the United States, but rising globally. It's a disease that kills someone every eight seconds, and costs the globe over a trillion dollars every year. Diabetes is a chronic condition that strikes when the pancreas, an organ that is part of the digestive system, no longer produces sufficient insulin, a hormone that helps regulate blood sugar levels. Complications with the hormone can lead to various forms of diabetes, now at epidemic levels around the world. The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that 1.5 million new cases of diabetes are diagnosed annually in the US alone. To lower that toll, the CDC has spent millions on prevention and education ca...

The Battle For Minimum Weight – Blacks and the Obesity Epidemic

Caught up in the frenetic grind of her fashion industry job, Allison Ferrell, 41, paid little attention to her increasing waistline. As Manager of Product Operation and Logistics for Abaete, a New York-based luxury apparel line, lunch was a luxury she couldn't afford. She said she was crazed and I couldn't spare the time so If I didn't eat by 1:00 p.m. that was it for the rest of the day. After a 2005 surgery left her stomach upset, she routinely avoided a litany of foods and routinely skipped meals. Her erratic eating habits kicked her body into pre-starvation mode. Believing it was starving, her body stopped burning calories and began to store food reserves causing an increase in body fat. I'd had a good run, but my negative habits were catching up with me and now it was time to take ca...