MARKET INSIGHT: Climate Change and Pollution Will Cost Businesses in the Future

The human cost of climate change and rising pollution makes headlines, but it’s now raising economic and investment red flags.

Read more about how the world’s largest asset manager has just warned investors that the impact of climate change is “underappreciated and under-priced,” and how the companies that pollute the most will become less valuable.  

New Study: Stress May Wipe Out Benefits of a Healthy Diet

 VIEW ALL BRIEF POSTS A new study measuring the impact of meals with different levels of saturated fats found that, for women with low levels of stress, markers of inflammation were higher after eating a meal with high levels of saturated fats versus a low saturated fat meal. But for women with high stress levels, those differences disappeared. They had high inflammation levels even after…

Loneliness is a serious wellness crisis

It is one of the great ironies of our era that, although we are now constantly digitally “connected,” Western societies are now suffering a serious epidemic of loneliness. Read about how loneliness is a predictor of early death – and how governments are starting to take action.

UK Weakens its Fight Against Childhood Obesity

A step backward in governments’ ongoing march to fight obesity: the UK just weakened its long-awaited strategy against childhood obesity by making the reduction in sugar in children’s foods a “suggestion” rather than mandatory.