How processed and preserved foods have changed our tastes and waists over time

For years, retired pharmacist Judy Wolverton Palmer was addicted to peanut butter, digging into any jar she could find.

She battled both weight and health issues, including chronic pain, skin issues, prediabetes, asthma and gastrointestinal problems.

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Nonprofits help uninsured Mississippians patch together health care services

Sitting in his home in New Orleans, Andrea Lane watched in alarm as his toes began turning a dark color.

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More Choctaws have died of COVID than those who died of the disease in Hawaii. Or Alaska. Or Wyoming.

The coronavirus pandemic has hit the Mississippi Choctaw Band of Indians harder than any major city in the nation — and 10 times harder than the rest of Mississippi.