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  • 2 weeks ago | nationalgeographic.com | Allison Torres Burtka

    “Our family loves the outdoors. We just don’t like sleeping in it.” This is what I heard my 11-year-old daughter telling another girl on our camping trip, who had asked where else we’d been camping. The answer: Nowhere. My family had stayed in cabins before, and some of our vacations revolved around hiking, but we usually returned to beds and showers at night. It’s not that we were nervous about sleeping in a tent—we just hadn’t been motivated to buy all the gear and figure it out.

  • 1 month ago | przegladsportowy.onet.pl | Allison Torres Burtka

    Aby uzyskać redukcję, musisz być na deficycie kalorycznym. Oznacza to, że każdego dnia zażywasz mniej kalorii, niż spalasz. Ponieważ bieganie spala znaczną liczbę kalorii, ten rodzaj ćwiczeń może pomóc w osiągnięciu takiego deficytu. Dokładna liczba kalorii spalanych podczas biegania zależy od kilku czynników, takich jak waga i wiek, a także prędkość i czas trwania biegów. Przeczytaj też: Jesteś po 40 i chcesz mieć wymarzone ciało?

  • 1 month ago | arabamericannews.com | Allison Torres Burtka

    By Allison Torres BurtkaSeniors in Detroit often face challenges maintaining older homes. The nonprofit organization U SNAP BAC (which stands for United Streets Networking And Planning: Building A Community), on Detroit’s East Side, created a program to help with home repairs and to address needs that it often sees among the seniors it serves.

  • Feb 13, 2025 | latinodetroit.com | Allison Torres Burtka

    By Allison Torres BurtkaSeniors in Detroit often face challenges maintaining older homes. The nonprofit organization U SNAP BAC (which stands for United Streets Networking And Planning: Building A Community), on Detroit’s East Side, created a program to help with home repairs and to address needs that it often sees among the seniors it serves.

  • Feb 12, 2025 | goworldtravel.com | Allison Torres Burtka

    I’m in a souped-up safari SUV in a Sri Lankan national park, and a couple of car lengths away, a female elephant and her baby are pulling plants from the ground and eating them. I’m close enough to hear them chewing. This was on my bucket list: seeing elephants in their natural habitat. But I had no idea how amazing it would be to sit quietly and watch them go about their day.

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Allison Torres Burtka
Allison Torres Burtka @atburtka
11 Oct 24

I wrote about this nonprofit that's helping students at HBCUs and Hispanic- and Indigenous-serving institutions navigate the process of applying to med school.

Stanford Social Innovation Review
Stanford Social Innovation Review @SSIReview

“We have to diversify medicine in a way to make it look more like our patient population, but no one tells you how to do that.”—Sydney Labat MD, cofounder @the15whitecoats Read how the #nonprofit is preparing underrepresented students for medical school. https://t.co/dwOkYstpjS

Allison Torres Burtka
Allison Torres Burtka @atburtka
11 Oct 24

RT @SSIReview: “We have to diversify medicine in a way to make it look more like our patient population, but no one tells you how to do tha…

Allison Torres Burtka
Allison Torres Burtka @atburtka
15 Apr 24

Edna Kiplagat is 44 years old!