Children who are prosocial—engaging in behaviors such as being kind, caring, and cooperative—are more likely to eat healthier when they become teenagers, according to a study. The study was published August 11 in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine (AJPM). Laura Kubzansky, professor of social and behavioral sciences at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public…
Over the last five years, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health researchers have been investigating whether air purifiers in patients’ homes can improve chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)—but in May, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) terminated grant funding for the study with one year left to go, leaving researchers and patients with only…
Lobster mac and cheese has been around for a long time, but in the aughts, perhaps due to a bump in the lobster supply, it graduated to a full-on restaurant trend. About as extra as Tom Cruise’s jump-on-Oprah’s-couch moment (which also took place in 2005), its appeal transcends both trends and decades. Making it at…
When I moved to New York City in my 20s, one of my first stops was Momofuku Noodle Bar. At that point, the famed East Village noodle joint had been open for over a decade, and I needed to know what the pork belly bao tasted like. I’d seen them featured in No Reservations, Anthony…
Few foods are more emblematic of 2005 than a red velvet cupcake from Sprinkles. When I was growing up in Los Angeles in the early 2000s, trekking to Sprinkles Cupcakes’s first location in Beverly Hills for a red velvet cupcake — a flavor I had never heard of before — was a rite of passage….
In his cookbook Six Seasons, Joshua McFadden calls his kale salad recipe “The Kale Salad That Started It All.” It’s an accurate name: the salad, which McFadden created when he was a chef de cuisine at the Brooklyn restaurant Franny’s, kicked off a trend that gave rise to many permutations of kale salad and in…
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You’re reading Lessons Learned, which distills practical takeaways from standout campaigns and peer-reviewed research in health and science communication. Want more Lessons Learned? Subscribe to our Call to Action newsletter. The public’s trust in scientists has suffered since COVID – in no small part because scientists have struggled to communicate their work and motivations in ways…
Although Magnolia Bakery is mostly synonymous with cupcakes in the public imagination — thanks, of course, to a fateful (and lucrative) Season 3 episode of Sex and the City — its banana pudding has also inspired its own share of fandom. Back in 2005, the dessert was largely overshadowed by the bakery’s cupcakes, but the…
What do you remember about 2005? Assuming you were alive and old enough to consume both solid food and cultural trends, maybe it was the cupcakes — red velvet, of course. Or the Juicy Couture velour tracksuits. Or the small but growing cadre of restaurant chefs insisting that Brussels sprouts could be delicious. Maybe 2005…
