Whether you have youth or teen athletes, finding pre game snacks and healthy snacks for athletes between games might feel challenging. Here are some of our top suggestions for snacks during sports tournaments, cross country meets and more. As an Amazon Associate, I may earn from qualifying purchases. While my children are young currently, I can certainly remember some of my favorite pre game snacks when having multiple soccer and softball games on any given day. Back then, I just ate what was available and drank tons of powerade. Snack ideas for sports teams weren’t what they are now. Now, as a sports dietitian planning to encounter these situations in the future, I have a much better grasp on pregame...
In case you hadn’t noticed, things aren’t fine with our planet. But as Greta Thunberg would say, some of us still aren’t panicking enough. Earth is growing hotter by the year, with heat records being smashed around the globe. Extreme weather events are getting worse, and the Arctic is not looking good, even though nations around the globe have committed to keeping average global temperature rise below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.Sure, it can be hard to get your head around exactly how human-induced climate change is affecting our globe when each day we just go about our daily lives, scrolling through TikTok, and making weekend plans. But if you actually hear from those at the forefront of this...
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Do you remember the books that made you a reader? What were the first books you had to have each time a new one came out; the books that you traded with your friends and discussed endlessly? For me, it was the Baby-Sitters Club. I remember my grandparents buying me the first book, and after I loved it, they bought me the next two. After that, every time they’d pick me up from school and we’d go to a bookstore, I’d race over to the shelves, hoping to see a new addition or two to the series. If there were no new BSC books, I’d choose a different book or try a new series. Sure, there might have been books...
Not everyone who qualifies for health insurance signs up for it. Consider Medicaid, the national health insurance plan for low-income people. Across the U.S., about 14 percent of eligible adults and 7 percent of eligible children are not enrolled in Medicaid. As it happens, when adults do enroll in Medicaid, some of them sign up their eligible children for it, too. This is an example of a “woodwork effect,” as policy analysts have termed it — sometimes, people eligible for social programs may come out of the woodwork, as it were, to claim benefits. A new study led by an MIT economist quantifies this effect, using Oregon as a case study. The research shows that for every nine adults who...
