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Volunteering Can Improve Your Mental Health—and It’s Still Possible to Give Back While Social Distancing

In light of the coronavirus pandemic and demands for justice and equality in the Black community, more people than ever before are offering their time and money to help necessary and important causes. While donating to nonprofit organizations or marching for the Black Lives Matter movement are worthwhile ways to give back, a new study has found that there are personal health benefits to volunteering, too. A study published in […]

todayJune 17, 2020

Home Improvement

Healthy Building Technology: Could the Coronavirus Pandemic help make it a reality?

People in the United States spend upward of 90 percent of their time indoors — inside homes, apartment buildings, schools, and offices. With the threat of COVID-19 looming over every interaction, those indoor spaces (where the virus spreads more easily) can seem loaded with hidden threats. Fortunately, scientists already have the tools to make buildings better for people and less hospitable to pathogens like the coronavirus. “The science is decades […]

todayMay 15, 2020

Health & Wellness

Resolved to Adopt a Healthy Lifestyle? Here are the 5 Keys to a Longer Life

Here we are in the new year, and many of us are making resolutions to "be healthier."  But if all of us want it to be healthy and make consistent efforts to achieve it, how is it that the United States spends the most money on healthcare, and yet still has the one of the lowest life expectancies of all developed nations? (To be specific: $9,400 per capita, 79 years, […]

todayJanuary 2, 2020

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