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As the food industry continues to trend towards crossbreeding and hybridization (pushing many breeds of livestock towards endangerment), Patrick Martins' Heritage Foods USA encourages producers to raise disappearing breeds. GOOD, 5/29/2013
READ MOREAs skin cancer rates continue to rise, here is some helpful advice on what to look for when selecting sunscreen. The New York Times, 5/28/2013
READ MORERand Corp's report on workplace well-being– a 6 billion dollar industry– casts a doubt on the effectiveness of employee wellness programs. Keith Lemer, president of Wellnet, says it takes "senior level support and a high degree of employee engagement in healthy behaviors" for wellness programs to truly work. Although the report found that
READ MOREIn Venezuela, David France studied El Sistema, a community music education program that brings instruments and instruction to underprivileged kids. Now, David uses the money he makes playing the violin to fund Revolution of Hope, an after-school orchestra he started in the disenfranchised inner-city community of Roxbury, MA. Jose Duarte, principal of Dearborn Middle School,
READ MOREResearchers at the Mayo Clinic and other institutions are finding that exposure therapy (which slowly exposes patients to the things they are anxious about) can be highly effective in helping children overcome anxiety. Teenager Georgiann Steely overcame her anxiety this way by taking part in a Mayo Clinic exposure therapy program where her parents acted
READ MOREThe decline of eye contact- in both work and social settings- is a growing problem, and it's having a negative effect on our ability to influence, impress, and connect with others. The Wall Street Journal, 5/28/2013
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