Good morning. What better way to cure a post-holiday hangover than to get a few tips on how to cut back on drinking? Our pals at Life Kit have put together some ideas if you are worried you might be overdoing it because of the stress and boredom brought on by the COVID-19 crisis.
Start by thinking about why you’re drinking. R. Lorraine Collins, a psychologist at the University of Buffalo, recommends asking yourself, "Are you keeping alcohol as a special beverage for limited situations, or are you engaging in alcohol use across the board?"
Also, keep track of how much you’re taking in -- the government recommends no more than one drink a day for women and two for men, but portion sizes can be a challenge for many of us to figure out.
Many people rejoiced when news of the rollout of COVID-19 vaccine began in earnest last month. But health officials acknowledge there are some people who mistrust the vaccine and may decline to be inoculated, setting back efforts to curb COVID -- particularly in communities that have been lied to before by public health officials (think Tuskegee or Native American reservations.)
Luckily, there are proven strategies on how to help get the message out, and they involve enlisting trusted members of the communities health leaders are trying to reach.
To cut through skepticism, says Tom Frieden, a former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, public health campaigns need "trusted messengers and trusted messages."
When COVID struck, fishermen lost a lot of their markets overnight. Restaurants closed or cut back significantly. Also, more families needed food assistance, putting a strain on foodbanks’ resources.
But up until recently, it’s been tricky to connect the two.
From New England haddock chowder in Massachusetts to sockeye salmon in Alaska, some innovative grant programs have helped pay local fishermen for their catch and get their fish onto the dinner tables of America’s food insecure, right in their own communities.
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