Billion-Dollar Boob Boost & Kitchen Beats Diet Culture

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📰 NEWS ABOUT YOUR BODY

🌍 Gates Foundation Drops $2.5B Bomb on Women’s Health Research
A massive $2.5 billion investment through 2030 is aimed at unlocking breakthroughs in maternal health, menstrual care, preeclampsia, contraception options, STI diagnosis, and more. It’s the largest ever leap in women’s health R&D—but still just a sliver of what’s needed. Read more here.

🧠 Stay Abreast Take: Capital moves—science follows. Let’s make this moment the injector shot our bodies deserve.

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🏛 No IVF Mandate in Sight—Despite the Pledges
Trump’s White House has walked back on campaign promises to mandate in-vitro fertilization coverage under the ACA. No plan, no legislative push—just an executive order with vague policy suggestions. Read more here.

🧠 Stay Abreast Take: When fertility care isn’t essential, people feel that—vividly. Follow the legislation, and push for real coverage.

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🍳 Home Cooking Outruns Ultra-Processed—Even When the Nutrition Matches
Hands down: home-cooked, minimally processed meals helped participants lose twice as much weight as those eating ultra-processed foods—even though both diets hit the same nutritional marks. Over an 8-week randomized crossover trial of 55 adults with obesity (BMI ~32), people on the scratch-cooked diet shed about 2 % of body weight, versus just 1 % on the ultra-processed plan. The MPF group also consumed 290 fewer daily calories, tolerated fewer cravings, and lost more fat mass. Importantly, this wasn’t a calorie-count experiment—it was the processing, not nutrients alone, that made the difference. The researchers argue this flips the script on obesity: it’s not just what we eat, but how food is made—and public policy needs to catch up. Read more here.

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