Science Today

BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM There’s a specific kind of health advice that asks a lot of you: meal prep, supplements with confusing ingredient lists, routines that cost more than they should. Blueberries aren’t that. They can be inexpensive, they need almost no preparation, and the research keeps giving you more reasons to eat…

BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM In March, mental health clinician Michala Williams met a 38-year-old woman sobbing in the front seat of her car in a McDonald’s parking lot. The woman had called 911. She had children ranging from age two to 22, a fiancé recently jailed, health issues she was managing alone, and…

BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM For years, researchers knew that air pollution stunts lung development in children. What they hadn’t been able to show was whether cleaning up the air could actually change that trajectory. A study published in The Lancet Public Health suggests it can. Scientists at Queen Mary University of London followed…