100 Million Americans Suffer from Chronic Pain
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In an effort to mitigate pain caused by contractions during childbirth, Jessica Delfino broke into song. Using a karaoke YouTube video from her husband’s phone, she joined Jimmy Buffett in belting out Margaritaville. “‘Nibblin on sponge cake,’ I began singing, uncertain, wondering if I was in some sort of labor-induced mania,” Delfino wrote in a story […]
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Grief Bacon
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What is grief bacon? The term is a direct translation of the German word kummerspeck. It refers to the overeating people do to cope with the trauma of grief. We know that dealing with the death of a significant other frequently involves appetite changes. Overeating, stress eating, and binge eating are on one side of the equation — […]
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50 Years Later: The Legendary Funeral of J. Edgar Hoover
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It was more like a presidential inauguration than a funeral. Among the more than two thousand invitation-only attendees were President and Mrs. Richard Nixon, Vice President Spiro Agnew, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Warren Burger, future President Gerald Ford, Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird, Acting Attorney General Richard Kleindienst, former Attorney General John Mitchell, […]
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Easing the Pain of Losing Your Father
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Neil Chethik was twenty-seven years old when he first heard his father cry. “In 1984,” Chethik recalled, “my paternal grandfather died suddenly. I was living a few blocks from him at the time. My father came to town the next day, and we spent an afternoon going through my grandfather’s apartment. My father began […]
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Did a Case of the Yips Cost Mikaela Shiffrin Olympic Gold?
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“I can’t explain to you how frustrated I am,” Mikaela Shiffrin told reporters in Beijing during the recent Olympic Games. “I have to fix something but I don’t know what I am supposed to fix.” The 26-year old native of Vail, Colorado, widely believed to be the greatest alpine skier in history, had just […]
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