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Over the course of 16 years, a team of researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health tracked a pool of 35,794 female nurses and analyzed the dietary habits of the subjects’ mothers while they were pregnant. Of the nurses followed in the study, 199 developed...
Nurses whose mothers drank at least four glasses of milk a day were 56 percent less likely to develop MS than those whose mothers drank less than three glasses per month, according to the study’s lead author, Fariba Mirzaei of the School of Public Health...
Kassandra Munger, a research associate in the School of Public Health’s department of nutrition also part of the research team—conducted an earlier study on the link published...
Artists are often perceived as reclusive, resentful of society, so adamant about their privacy that the public becomes all the more interested in violating it. They may even be seen as egocentric or possessed by a monomaniacal devotion to their work. The archetype can be justified; some artists flaunt their lack of regard for what their fans think of them, for instance. Anyone who has attended a Bob Dylan concert, for example, knows that he changes the rhythm of his delivery to frustrate audience members audacious enough to sing along...
...artist still begs a reception, and can involve himself deeply in the social and political issues of the public world. Instead of alienating audiences, performers can attract and unite audiences in emotional empathy. In the wake of January’s catastrophic earthquake in Haiti, artists from the Harvard community seem to follow this last tradition. Poets and performers alike are banding together to raise money and awareness by inspiring audiences to understand the scale of the Haitian tragedy, and to empathize with the people affected...