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“Friendship is … a bulwark against stasis, a potential source of creativity and renewal in lives that otherwise narrow with time,” Jennifer Senior wrote in 2022. Rebecca and Elisa “became close more than a decade ago, spotting in each other the same traits that dazzled outsiders: talent, charisma, saber-tooth smarts. To Rebecca, Elisa was ‘impossibly vibrant’ in a way that only a 30-year-old can be to someone who is 41. To Elisa, Rebecca was a glamorous and reassuring role model, a woman who through some miracle of alchemy had successfully combined motherhood, marriage, and a creative life,” Senior wrote. But, slowly, the two friends were torn apart by their differences. Were friendships always so fragile? “I suspect not,” Senior continued. “But we now live in an era of radical individual freedoms. All of us may begin at the same starting line as young adults, but as soon as the gun goes off, we’re all running in different directions; there’s little synchrony to our lives … Yet it’s precisely because of the atomized, customized nature of our lives that we rely on our friends so very much … What makes friendship so fragile is also exactly what makes it so special. You have to continually opt in. That you choose it is what gives it its value.”https://lnkd.in/e8uax_6v
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When you go to a website with a question pertaining to the care and maintenance of your newborn baby, you will almost certainly see this disclaimer attached to the advice: “Ask your pediatrician.” But, in many cases, the problem is that “the answer depends on the pediatrician you ask,” Olga Khazan wrote in 2024.https://lnkd.in/emzkyH4HAs maddening as conflicting instructions can be, they also “suggest that there’s often no wrong or right way to take care of your baby,” Khazan continues. The reason for much of the disagreement between pediatricians in part comes down to the fact that there are not large, randomized, controlled, blind trials for many pediatric practices. Conducting a trial on, say, the amount of tummy time an infant needs would require millions of dollars of funding and thousands of parents laying their children on their stomachs for differing lengths of times for months. Instead, doctors rely on what they were taught in medical school or residency—or even “what they were taught by their moms or dads or grandparents,” one pediatrician told Khazan.Other fields of medicine can also have patchy evidence bases. But “pediatrics is unique because people have so many questions about every little thing, and the answers all feel very high-stakes,” Khazan writes. “Giving your baby the wrong kind of formula can feel like a matter of life and death—at least when you’re hormonal and running on two hours of sleep.” Still, this dearth of pediatric evidence “allows for the flourishing of woo-woo, unproved baby interventions,” Khazan continues.“Of course, some pediatric advice—about, say, the importance of childhood vaccines and placing babies on their back to sleep—is grounded in firm evidence,” Khazan writes. But “many pediatricians don’t differentiate between” science-based advice and “advice that’s just probably a good idea.” Asking “Why are you recommending that?” is one way to figure out which is which, Emily Oster tells Khazan. “And for parents, clashing pediatric advice can, paradoxically, be a relief. When doctors all agree on something, such as vaccines, it’s often because the consequences are important and well studied,” Khazan writes. Read more:https://lnkd.in/emzkyH4H🎨: The Atlantic. Source: Getty.
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The way America eats is being upended—and a particular group of women are behind the change, Sophie Gilbert argues.https://lnkd.in/eMipeNgqUp until the mid-20th century or so, humans tended to eat food cooked at home, from fresh ingredients, made predominantly by women. That changed after the Second World War in part because of technological advancements—but also, Gilbert writes, because “women were joining the workforce, happily ceding the task of dinner to Big Food.” By the 2000s, the consequences of this, along with broader changes, were evident: Obesity rates among adults and children were rising, and food companies had mastered the art of engineering products to encourage mindless overconsumption.Now, however, the patterns of influence over what we eat are again changing: “Enabled by social media, certain mothers” are “intent on reasserting their authority over mealtime,” Gilbert writes. There’s now “a glut of wellness content about the dangers of seed oils and chemicals, as well as nostalgic imagery disseminated over social media by women labeled ‘tradwives.’”Meanwhile, Gilbert continues, the “Make America Healthy Again” movement has morphed into a politicized mantra “among an improbable coalition of personalities who also want milk unpasteurized, food dyes banned, vaccines eliminated—and who also seem to want women re-enshrined in their rightful place in the kitchen.”“If you overlook the very real public-health ramifications of vaccine hesitancy and raw milk, the rise of the MAHA movement might offer some promise,” Gilbert continues. “RFK Jr. and his merry band of mothers have, if nothing else, made the importance of good food in encouraging good health more prominent in our culture, and more bipartisan.”But more than just campaigning for healthy eating, “MAHA proselytizers” want moms “to take on more responsibility, turning what should be a multifaceted effort into an atomized, individualistic one,” Gilbert writes. Instead of pressuring the government to regulate food companies or restrict marketing to children, the onus has again been placed on mothers, Gilbert argues.Read more about the culture war over American food:https://lnkd.in/eMipeNgq🎨: Lucas Burtin
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