Your kid won’t eat his veggies? Give them a spiffy new name
Forget plain old carrots and boring broccoli. According to a new study, rebranding these veggies as “X-ray Vision Carrots” or “Power Punch Broccoli” helps children to eat healthy at school. The study...
View ArticleAn Updated Take on the “Marshmallow Test”
While there are no absolutes in life, the idea that children can’t resist marshmallows is pretty close. This assertion is the idea behind the “Marshmallow Test,” a fairly famous self-control experiment...
View ArticleThe Dirty Business of Marketing Kids’ Foods
After spending seven minutes listing examples of how the food industry markets products to children, Dr. Yoni Freedhoff gets to his point: “What I think the food industry could do is stop lying.”...
View Article7 ways parents can take responsibility for child obesity
Currently, child obesity is one of serious health problems in the States. Since children are not able to take care of themselves, children tend to be easily influenced by their parents. As a parent or...
View ArticleGame Therapy
For children, coping with the pain of chronic illness can be particularly harrowing. They can’t well understand and articulate what they’re feeling. They can’t quite recognize how temporal pain is and...
View ArticleFood desert mirage
The nutrition and food justice worlds exploded over an article in The New York Times this week highlighting two research articles (published in reputable academic journals) that claim “food deserts” do...
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Better parenting through technology?
A recent article in the Journal of Health Communication sums up a program that’s a private-public partnership aimed at helping new mothers get through the early part of becoming parents. The program it...
View ArticleC is for Cookie – A Sometime Food
I remember years back when the Cookie Monster stopped eating so many cookies and started eating more vegetables, and it got a ridiculous amount of press coverage. Some people applauded Sesame Street...
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A Game for Good
www.re-mission.net Contrary to popular opinion, video games have the potential to make us healthier. Games that promote physical activity – such as Wii Fit and Just Dance – have become trendy in the...
View ArticleMilwaukee’s Anti-”Co-Sleeping” Campaign
While implementing fear tactics in advertising to promote or discourage a health behavior can be effective, the strategy seldom comes without controversy. This campaign, launched by the City of...
View ArticleThe Camp Gyno & HelloFlo.com
All characteristics and identities aside, every woman has one thing in common, periods. Whether it is short or long, lite or heavy, thousands of women experience the “pleasures” of womanhood every...
View ArticleHPV and Oral Health: how brushing your teeth can decrease your risk of...
How do you protect yourself from cavities? Brush your teeth. How do you protect yourself from oral HPV? Brush your teeth. As it turns out, brushing your teeth and maintaining good oral hygiene is no...
View ArticleWorld Sees Dramatic Drop in HIV Infections
HIV infections and AIDS-related deaths are on the decline, according to a recent UN report. The death rates fell from 2.3 million in 2005 to 1.6 million last year, and the number of new HIV infections...
View ArticleOnline Health Records Increase Child Well-Visits
One of the upcoming areas in health information is the creation of online health records. While there are still many debates about privacy and confidentiality, the reality is, health information is...
View ArticleWill Raising the Cigarette Purchase Age Lower Smoking?
Last week, New York City decided that young people will have to wait until they’re 21 to legally purchase cigarettes (including e-cigarettes). NYC’s former minimum age and the US federal minimum age to...
View ArticleA Brain Boost from Music Lessons?
Could music lessons as a child give your brain a boost as an adult? As a former music student, band geek, and piano teacher who continues to satisfy her inner music geek as much as possible, I love to...
View ArticleADHD: NOT a Disease
Over the last ten years one disease has taken the cake for overdiagnosis, Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). As of 2011, 11% of all American children were tagged as suffering from...
View ArticlePeanut Allergy Be Gone!
In all our efforts to combat sickness and infections we’ve been told to wash our hands and cover our coughs, yet there’s still the age old theory that says to expose yourself to what makes you sick so...
View ArticleYouth Health Hits the Minority Health Conference
On Friday, February 28th, the 35th Annual Minority Health Conference will take place at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. This full-day event brings together scholars and practitioners...
View ArticleWhich Causes More Cancer, Tanning Beds or Cigarettes?
If you predicted thought, guess what? – You’re wrong!! That’s right ladies and gentlemen, tanning beds cause more cancer than cigarettes!! According to a recent study conducted at the University of...
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