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First, her favorite doctor in Providence, R.I. retired. Then her other doctor, at a health center a few miles away, left the practice. Now, Piedad Fred has developed a new chronic condition: distrust in the American medical system.
“I don’t know,” she said, eyes filling up. “To go to a doctor that doesn’t know who you are? That doesn’t know what allergies you have, the medicines that make you feel bad? It’s difficult…I know that I feel cheated, sad, and like I have my hands tied.”
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Candy Murnion remembers vividly the event that pushed her to open her first day care business in Jordan, a town of fewer than 400 residents in a sea of grassland in eastern Montana.
Garfield County’s public health nurse, one of few public health officials serving the town and nearly 5,000 square miles that surround it, had quit because she had given birth to her second child and couldn’t find day care.
Sometimes trying to be healthy feels like just another item on your endless, exhausting to-do list. Here on NPR’s health team, we don’t want to add to anyone’s stress. The good news is that it doesn’t take great feats of fitness or a heroic commitment to good habits to stay well. Often small changes can make a significant difference.
“Take any food you love, make it out of cauliflower, and it’s magically healthy. Or at least that’s what most people think about pizza. But is cauliflower pizza crust healthy?
The fear of carb consumption has led to an explosion of creative carb substitutes, cauliflower pizza crust being one of many.
“People are so anti-carbohydrate and think white flour isn’t good for you. So they wonder, ‘How can we still eat pizza?,’” says Keri Gans, RDN, author of The Small Change Diet. “[Cauliflower pizza crust] also has a health halo because it’s associated with a vegetable.”
But look beyond that halo glow and check the labels. Then you can really see if cauliflower crust is better for you than regular crust.”
