Here’s a fact: Stroke threatens millions of lives. Here’s another: Stroke is a leading cause of long-term disabilities. Ready for one more? Strokes are largely preventable, treatable, and beatable. In fact, 80% of all strokes can be prevented. Now that’s a healthy, do-good goal we...
These days, the average person sleeps about seven and a half hours per night and sits for nine and a half hours per day. Combined, that’s around seventeen hours of non-activity. You may or may not think that’s so bad, after all, you need your...
It’s amazing how little we think about our big toe, until we stub it. Or how breathing just happens effortlessly, until our nose gets clogged. Our health is something that we don’t think about much, until it’s compromised. After all, if everything is working fine,...
Have you ever seen a tiger or a snow leopard? What about an orangutan, a gorilla, an elephant, a panda, a sea otter, a rhinoceros, or a blue whale? No, we are not talking about on TV or on YouTube. We aren’t even talking about...
Ever wonder where jalapenos come from? Ever seen how Brussels sprouts or celery grow? The truth is that most of us haven’t, because we can just get them from the grocery store or Farmer’s Market. It’s that easy. And, if they have that “Organic” sticker...
We are perplexed. How is it that every year over 700 million people in the world are chronically malnourished, yet one-third of all the food produced in the world is lost or wasted? How is it that we are using our planet’s natural resources at...
We have a problem. A big, and yet silent one. It happens slowly, in small increments, hardly noticed until it builds up to a crescendo. It’s called “Litter.” Here are a few “not-so-fun” proof points for you. Did you know that 75% of people have...
Discussions about our environment are nothing new. They’ve been going on for decades and finding common ground on whether or not we humans negatively impact our environment is still a long-debated issue. But at EMM, it’s simple. Because we believe that everything we do, say, and...
We have our good friend Socrates to share for something. It’s the question, “Why?” We call it the “Socratic Method,” which has been the foundation for all logic and philosophy in the western world for the last 2,500 years. Well, we thought it’s time to...
We are powerful beings in many ways. Our words, our actions, our thoughts affect not only our own lives, but also the lives of those around us. Sure, we believe this at Every Monday Matters, but we are not so convinced that everyone embraces just...