Today’s Solutions: March 28, 2024

Health

Finding good health news amidst a pandemic can be quite daunting. That’s not the case with The Optimist Daily, where positive news is in high supply. Our Health section covers the latest good news from the health sector, featuring solutions ranging from mental and physical health to immunity, nutrition, and cutting edge medical research.

The fast food industry is disc

The fast food industry is discovering… vegetables

The hottest trend in the fast-food industry, believe it or not, is vegetables. We’re not talking iceberg lettuce or tired tomatoes, but actually healthy vegetables. From McDonald’s to Panera, fast-food restaurants are finding that people want healthier options, and by adding vegetables, Read More...

In praise of the humble fruit

In praise of the humble fruit fly

In a series of rooms in the Fly Facility of the Department of Genetics at Cambridge University, around 5m fruit flies are kept in test tubes at any given time. They’re stored at different temperatures to determine varying lengths of life cycle – at 25C, it’s about 10 days; at Read More...

A new study suggests that enti

A new study suggests that entitlement leads to chronic disappointment

Spoiling children doesn’t help them. It leads to exaggerated feelings of deservingness and superiority. Such entitlement may lead to chronic disappointment, and can throw people into a “perpetual loop of distress,” according to a new study. People with high levels of entitlement consistently Read More...

Eliminate laws that cause heal

Eliminate laws that cause healthy food to go to waste

Multiple policies could be implemented to address food waste and its impacts on the environment, food security, and our climate. In particular, we should eliminate laws that cause healthy food to go to waste, incentivize food donation and, when needed, enact penalties for senseless food waste. Read More...

People who don’t like aging

People who don’t like aging are more likely to develop Alzheimer’s

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Simple steps by consumers can

Simple steps by consumers can curb food waste

Dana Gunders, the leading expert on food waste at the Natural Resources Defense Council, is the author of "Waste-Free Kitchen Handbook: A Guide to Eating Well and Saving Money by Wasting Less Food." The next time you toss out a burger, imagine taking a 90-minute shower. That’s how much water Read More...

Investigating the power of tur

Investigating the power of turmeric to boost your health

More and more research shows the power of turmeric, the curry spice in Indian food, to fight inflammation. Inflammation lies at the root of all degenerative diseases from cancer and heart disease to Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. The BBC investigated the health claims and discovered that adding Read More...

Can meditation help pain after

Can meditation help pain after surgery?

Patients who have back surgery, a procedure that can cause severe pain for weeks, may have a new relief option beyond narcotics: meditation. In a study at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City, a neurosurgeon has teamed up with a geriatrician who leads meditation classes to test whether the Read More...

The UK has its first food wast

The UK has its first food waste supermarket

The UK's first food waste supermarket has opened in Pudsey, near Leeds. Food waste campaigners from the Real Junk Food Project have opened "the warehouse", a store on the Grangefield Industrial Estate. Customers are invited to shop for food thrown out by supermarkets and other businesses. The food Read More...

Denmark opened the world’

Denmark opened the world's first food waste supermarket

The charity behind the world’s first food waste supermarket has said that it is planning to open two more. Folkekirkens Nødhjælp, which opened the first food waste supermarket in Copenhagen in February, said that it is planning to open another in Copenhagen and a third in Arhus, the second Read More...