I read a lot of news articles, and I want to share them with you, but I don’t want to bombard you with posts. This isn’t that kind of newsletter. So I thought, why not collect the most compelling, thought-provoking, and informative pieces I’m reading throughout the month and then share them all on the last Friday? Welcome to Brain Food, a monthly post where I do just that.
RFK Jr. And Trump’s Attacks on Public Health
Why Is the Trump Administration Deleting a Paper on Suicide Risk? - The Atlantic
RFK Jr. Goes After Widely Used Antidepressants, Claiming They Could Be a Threat to Americans - Vanity Fair
CDC cuts expected to devastate Epidemic Intelligence Service, a ‘crown jewel’ of public health - STAT
CDC Shutters PRAMS Program on Maternal and Infant Health - Talking Points Memo
What MAHA’s crusade against seed oils reveals about flaws in America’s food system - STAT
Trump’s shocking purge of public health data, explained - Vox
Polio Vaccines Saved America from the Disease. What Happens if We Lose Them? - Scientific American
The most dangerous misconceptions about public health - Popular Science
The Junk Science of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. - The New Yorker
Healthy Futures
Genetic Discoveries Could Reduce Black Women's Higher Breast Cancer Death Risk - Scientific American
Apple launches wide-ranging health study to help develop future features - The Verge
Developing Expertise Improves the Brain’s Ability to Concentrate - Scientific American
Reproductive Health
Painful Endometriosis Can Affect the Whole Body, Not Only the Pelvis - Scientific American
Understand fibroids, a little-known health condition that affects 2 out of 3 women - BBC Science Focus Magazine
A Less Brutal Alternative to IVF - The Atlantic
Why the pelvic floor muscles are fundamental to health and wellbeing - Harper's Bazaar Australia
Wellness Culture
How Protein Mania Took Over the Grocery Store - New York Magazine
Some women turn to castor oil packs on the belly as a health fix - The Washington Post
Wellness is a Billion Dollar Industry in the US. So, Why Aren’t We Happier? - Coveteur
The dark side of wellness: the overlap between spiritual thinking and far-right conspiracies - The Guardian
The False Promises of Wellness Culture - JSTOR Daily
Bigger Picture
What Words Are For? - Harper’s Bazaar
African Americans and Alzheimer's caregiving: The burden and honor - The Sacramento Observer