by Dr. Christine M. Silverstein | Nov 25, 2025 | Ideal Performance
Some food experts are calling Thanksgiving 2025 the most food-insecure holiday in recent US history. The contributing factors are rising food prices and reduced government benefits that are making it more challenging for many low-income families to afford holiday...
by Dr. Christine M. Silverstein | Nov 10, 2025 | Ideal Performance
In view of the everchanging and confusing landscape where the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is in jeopardy, states braced themselves for a freeze on federal funding starting November 1, 2025, amid a protracted US government shutdown. States like...
by Dr. Christine M. Silverstein | Oct 27, 2025 | Ideal Performance
The shooting at the National Football League headquarters on Park Avenue in New York City on July 28, 2025, left four dead and one injured by the shooter, Shane Tamura, 27. He wrote tht he had the intent to kill and claimed that he acquired Chronic Traumatic...
by Dr. Christine M. Silverstein | Oct 20, 2025 | Ideal Performance
On October 15, 2024, Isabella Backman reported on an article in Molecular Psychiatry about a key brain difference linked to autism that was found for the first time in living people. PET scans revealed that the brains of adults with autism have fewer synapses than...
by Dr. Christine M. Silverstein | Sep 30, 2025 | Ideal Performance
On March 13, 2025, Elena Conis, medical historian, wrote that of the more than 200 Americans infected by a measles outbreak in Texas and beyond, most were unvaccinated, including a 6-year-old child who died. For some of us who have experienced childhood diseases, such...
by Dr. Christine M. Silverstein | Aug 28, 2025 | Ideal Performance
Back-to-School or Not? Every year in August, we as parents and teachers begin the ritual of preparing our teens for going back to school. Usually this entails purchasing school supplies, new shoes to accommodate the growth of their feet, setting up rules for safe...
