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A wealth of evidence shows that exposure to the natural environment and nature-based learning can benefit children’s physical, mental, social, and emotional health. Despite this, children are spend...

To mitigate the harmful effects of stormwater runoff, many cities in the United States are constructing green stormwater infrastructure (GSI), yet the varied perceptions of GSI by local municipal m...

Mame-Fatou Niang’s Identites francaises: Banlieues, feminites et universalisme discusses contemporary notions of identity, belonging and marginalization in order to ‘interroger l’ecart entre les pe...

Each night all the houses on Mahogany Tree Street but one were warmed by the soft glow of newly installed electric lights. The dark home was called a “nail house” because its inhabitants refused to...

Epidemic levels of obesity represent a growing public health problem associated with a variety of negative health outcomes. Population level interventions that aim to moderate obesigenic environments have been proposed but remain largely unimplemented. Standard individual level interventions that focus on dietary restraint have been ineffective and in some cases harmful. Intuitive eating, an anti-dieting strategy that relies on recognizing and responding to internal hunger and satiation cues, has been proposed as an alternative approach to healthy weight management at the individual level—but it remains largely untested. This study evaluated the relationship between intuitive eating and various health indicators among female college students. As measured by the Intuitive Eating Scale (IES), it was found that intuitive eating was significantly correlated with lower body mass index (r = -.576), lower triglyceride levels (r = -.408), higher levels of high density lipoproteins (.437), and improved ca...