On a sunny day in July, while other Bay Area kids were playing at camps or water parks, 8-year-old Charlotte O’Neill was leaning back in a reclining chair in a small, carpeted San Jose office room.
Depression disrupts the body's stress systems, causing physical health risks like heart disease, diabetes, and stroke, and reducing life expectancy by 7-10 years.
The group has also called for immediate government intervention to tackle the alarming rise in diabetes cases across the country, by increasing the tax on sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs), with the ...