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A Young Entrepreneur’s Sweet Idea
The Wall Street Journal: Unreal Brands is a for-profit but like many ventures led by the millennial generation, it has a social mission. It is looking to recreate traditional junk foods, so that they taste
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Is Feeling Bad a Luxury Problem?
Huffington Post: Health experts call these “first-world problems,” meaning the accumulated stresses of daily life and the negative emotions they arouse. There’s little doubt that worry and anger and sadness are linked to illness and
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Is Feeling Bad a Luxury Problem?
In Judith Viorst’s classic children’s book, Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, Alexander wakes up with chewing gum in his hair—and everything goes downhill from there. He trips on his skateboard
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Class discrimination harms health of poor
United Press International: Discrimination and the stigma attached to poverty may contribute to physiologic changes associated with poorer health, U.S. researchers suggest. Lead author Dr. Thomas Fuller-Rowell of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who is a
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Social-class discrimination plays a role in poorer health for teens
Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel: A study of teenagers led by a University of Wisconsin-Madison researcher reports that social class discrimination can contribute to poorer health. Previous studies have linked poverty and poor health, but UW researcher Thomas Fuller-Rowell says this
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Social-Class Discrimination Contributes to Poorer Health
Discrimination felt by teenagers based on their social class background can contribute to physiological changes associated with poorer health, according to a new study published online in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for
