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Get up! No. Literally
What are the benefits of movement?
mariadigerlando
Jun 22 min read


Period Poverty and Women Inequality: The Unvarnished Truth
For those blissfully unaware, period poverty is when your wallet is too thin to buy menstrual products. It happens more often than you'd guess. Not having these essential items means missing work, skipping school, lousy hygiene, and some unwanted infections (Tolman, p. 4). Women inequality, a hot topic, really made headlines during the pandemic when unemployment soared and paychecks shrank. Plus, the article, Period Poverty – why millions of girls and women cannot afford thei
mariadigerlando
May 196 min read


Vaccines and Viruses
I'm going to be touching on one of the most controversial topics, vaccines, so please be kind, followed by a brief on viruses. What is a vaccine? By definition, a vaccine is an inactive or weakened virus used to strengthen our immune system, so our white blood cells (aka WBC immune system soldiers) identify and attacks the virus (Webster, 2026). The creation of the smallpox vaccine in 1796 was the very start of the journey in creating a healthier and longer life (immunize.org
mariadigerlando
May 144 min read
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