If you want to get in good physical shape, live in an affluent neighborhood with a supportive community spirit and lots of women. At least that’s one of the conclusions you could draw from a recent study of the relative effect that a neighborhood’s social support systems and degree of affluence have on how much people in the neighborhood exercise. [Read more…]

Financial and economic ministers from around the world met this last Sunday in Washington, DC and, of all things, talked about food. This might have been a way to dodge talking about crumbling conditions in the world’s capital markets. But something more imminent seemed to be on their minds. [Read more…]

I just watched the first of a four part series on PBS titled “Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick?” California Newsreel produced this documentary about all the ways in which inequity fundamentally affects health. I encourage you to look in your TV listings for it or go to the California Newsreel website unnaturalcauses.org. [Read more…]