--- description: The grinding stress of poverty, not food scarcity, causes unhealthy eating habits. Also, treating addiction as a learning disorder, and more. title: These Are the Five Best Ideas of the Day image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Ideas](/section/ideas/) ## Ideas Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Innovation](/tag/innovation/) ## Innovation Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Five Best Ideas of the Day: August 5 by [The Aspen Institute](/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Aug 5, 2014 4:00 PM CUT by [The Aspen Institute](/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Aug 5, 2014 4:00 PM CUT **1\.** [**The grinding stress of life in poverty – not the scarcity of healthy options – leads the poor to unhealthy eating.**](http://www.psmag.com/navigation/health-and-behavior/many-low-income-people-overweight-87379/ "undefined") By James McWilliams in Pacific Standard **2\.** [**Cutting out the middlemen: Loan servicers aggravate the college debt crisis.**](http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2014/07/31/to-keep-grads-solvent-take-the-middleman-out-of-student-loans/ "undefined") By Chris Hicks in the Reuters Great Debate **3\.** [**We must treat addiction as a learning disorder.**](http://www.substance.com/most-of-us-still-dont-get-it-addiction-is-a-learning-disorder/9176/ "undefined") By Maia Szalavitz in Substance **4\.** [**Stop trying to be the “next Silicon Valley.”**](http://www.forbes.com/sites/groupthink/2014/07/16/why-creating-the-next-silicon-valley-is-the-wrong-goal/ "undefined") By Ross Baird and Rob Lalka in Forbes **5\.** [**A first step: The Ugandan Constitutional Court strikes down that country’s vicious anti-gay law, but more fight remains.**](https://aspennewvoices.squarespace.com/news/2014/8/4/new-voices-fellows-make-statement-on-ugandas-reversal-of-anti-gay-law "undefined") By James K. Arinaitwe and Adebisi Alimi from the Aspen New Voices Fellowship  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/ "undefined") _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3082683/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-august-5/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3082683/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-august-5/"},"headline":"Five Best Ideas of the Day: August 5","datePublished":"2014-08-05T16:00:15.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:43:07.163Z","description":"The grinding stress of poverty, not food scarcity, causes unhealthy eating habits. Also, treating addiction as a learning disorder, and more.","url":"https://time.com/3082683/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-august-5/","keywords":["Innovation","Stress","poverty","Addiction","Silicon Valley","Uganda","college loans"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3082683/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-august-5/","name":"Five Best Ideas of the Day: August 5"}}]}] ```