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10/22/2025

What you eat does play a role in your ability to ward off colds and flu. Though it doesn’t boil down to just one or two foods, the nutrients and other compounds found in your daily diet have an impact on how weak or strong your immunity is. Here are some eating habits that can help you stay healthy:
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10/22/2025

📚 Reading doesn’t just inform us — research shows it rewires our brains.

Here's how reading changes the way we think, perceive, and participate in society.

Reading isn’t just a gateway to information—it physically and cognitively reshapes the human brain.

According to psychologist Falk Huettig and colleagues at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, literacy transforms how we perceive the world, process emotions, and store and retrieve memories.

Though written language is a relatively recent human invention, learning to read activates a wide network of brain functions including visual recognition, phonological awareness, working memory, and predictive thinking. In fact, good readers outperform illiterate individuals in tasks like verbal memory, categorization, and even interpreting visual sequences or spatial orientation—skills critical far beyond the written word.

This cognitive transformation has broader societal implications.

As UNESCO estimates that 15% of the global population remains illiterate, researchers argue that literacy is essential not just for personal empowerment but for a functioning democracy.

José Morais of the University of Brussels emphasizes that reading underpins the ability to engage in critical thinking, analyze complex problems, and make informed decisions. In this sense, widespread literacy supports public discourse and participatory governance. From the way we analyze images to how we vote, reading fundamentally shapes how we think—and how societies function.
Huettig, F. et al. (2018). The effects of literacy on cognition and brain functioning. Max Planck Society.

10/22/2025

Lemon water is more than a refreshing treat -- lemon's vitamin C can also give your immune system a boost! 🍋 https://wb.md/3J3vpRS

08/03/2025

Young children whose parents read them five books a day enter kindergarten having heard about 1.4 million more words than kids who were never read to, a new study found. This “million word gap” could be one key in explaining differences in vocabulary and reading development, said Jessica Logan, ...

08/03/2025

Greater Atlanta Pediatrics is wishing the kids a safe trip back to school on your first day!

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If you have high blood pressure, there are things you can do to help bring it down. https://wb.md/470Txhp

07/28/2025

Nowadays, everything from bottled water to orange juice appears to have enhanced levels of vitamins and minerals. But, routinely getting an overload of vitamins and minerals can hurt you: https://wb.md/3TYckCj