Sheila Eldred

6 days ago | mspmag.com | Sheila Eldred

Standing in line at Costco recently, an acquaintance looked at her watch. She’d spent hours on this shopping excursion, one that would have taken about 15 minutes with her laptop and Target Circle Card. But she’d cancelled her Target card to join in the boycott of the Minnesota-based big-box store. Wielding her giant Costco cart, she wondered if she was actually making a difference.

2 months ago | experiencelife.lifetime.life | Sheila Eldred |David Schimke |Craig Cox

Perfection is the enemy of the good, especially when you’re trying to cut down on ultraprocessed foods (UPFs), says Nichola Ludlam-Raine, RD, author of How Not to Eat Ultra-Processed: Your 4-Week Plan for Life-Changing Healthier Eating Habits. UPFs account for almost three-quarters of America’s food supply, meaning the hunt for minimally processed foods can be tricky, especially in social situations. Ludlam-Raine encourages people to be gentle with themselves rather than strive for perfection.

Feb 24, 2025 | washingtonpost.com | Sheila Eldred

MINNEAPOLIS — On a recent 35-degree day, skaters dressed in bright snowsuits and stocking caps flew across an outdoor hockey rink while school-age children laced up in a warming house and teetered onto the rink. For decades, rinks like the one in Bryant Square Park in south Minneapolis have served as local winter escapes, drawing thousands of residents to Friday night bonfires, pickup hockey games and children’s birthday parties. But climate change is threatening the future of the city’s rinks.

Jan 28, 2025 | mspmag.com | Sheila Eldred

When Sheila Holleran found out she would need 40 sessions of hyperbaric treatment to preserve tissue and organs damaged during radiation treatment for cervical cancer that had spread throughout her body, she was immediately overwhelmed. On top of being a single parent with young children, it was a lot. But within a week, she had changed her mindset about the whole thing. Electronic devices aren’t allowed in hyperbaric chambers, because the higher pressure in the room could cause them to spark.

Jan 24, 2025 | history.com | Sheila Eldred

Bird flu, or avian influenza, might seem like a relatively new phenomenon to the general public. But the disease, technically called Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI), has been sickening birds since the 1800s, and likely much longer. And in humans, cases date at least as back to the 1918 flu pandemic. If scientists could have surveyed wastewater hundreds of years ago, they might have found it had been circulating for much longer.