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When healthy food is difficult to access, chronic disease often follows, making food insecurity one of the major contributors of poor health in rural communities. Our analysis found that 149 rural Texas census tracts, with a combined population of about 480,000, have high or very high food insecurity vulnerability

Up to 45% of dementia cases could be delayed or prevented by reducing certain risk factors throughout life, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said in revised global guidelines on dementia prevention. The new recommendations, published on 15 July 2026, reflect the latest scientific evidence and update WHO’s first dementia prevention guidelines published in 2019.…