You are what you watch.
UCLA School of Public Health released a study this month providing additional details to the link between television viewing and childhood obesity. It demonstrates that the link is not all about the amount of TV watched, but rather, the number of junkfood commercials witnessed by the viewer over time.
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Trying to kick your smoking habit? Have an older teen/young adult who needs to quit? Let smokers eat cake! Well, that’s what the studies show. Our self control (our Powerful Word of the Month) can only go so far.
This may be the reason so many struggle with restrictive New Year’s Resolutions. It turns out, if [...]
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Talk about a touchy subject.
For those of you who have infants in the house, you might want to pay attention to this interesting bit of news. According to a new study published in the Journal of Human Capital and featured in the NYT this morning, breastfeeding is associated with “substantial” increases in grade point average [...]
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Do Latinas and African American Girls Have Better Body Image?
Dr. Robyn Silverman
A new localized study caught my eye this morning because it talked about a discrepancy in the way Latinas viewed their bodies in comparison to the way that mainstream American women view their bodies. In particular, the researchers suggested that the Latinas they [...]
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I’ve been thinking about this question as I’ve been writing my book on girls and body image. I know it’s an ugly question– showing an ugly side of human nature. But the more girls who write to me about how they view themselves and others in their schools, the more I wonder if this question [...]
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Our values and our character have clearly been screwed up. We’ve got work to do folks, and it may be an uphill battle. As Powerful Words Member Schools are talking about confidence this month, we have to look at all contributors for their lack of self worth, low self esteem, and lack of regard for [...]
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Media Exposure Causing All Sorts of Problems for Children
Dr. Robyn Silverman
Well, we knew it was a problem for our kids to be exposed to too much TV– we’ve heard it associated with poor body image and pressure to grow up too fast in previous articles.
Now– more problems. A study has been released that shows that [...]
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Parent Alert: What a Recent Study About Teen Pregnancy Reveals
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By Dr. Robyn Silverman
It’s not hard to believe. We saw it with Jamie Lynn Spears in the news. We saw it with American Pie (among many others) in the movies. And yes, we see it on TV. A study, published today, found that those teens and [...]
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Attention Parents!
A Rise in Kidney Stones in Children Due to Salty Processed Foods?
Dr. Robyn Silverman
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As if we needed another reason not to feed our children processed foods.
We’ve talked about the rise in cholesterol, weight, and now…kidney stones in children.
“I thought older men get kidney stones, not kids,” Mother of 11 [...]
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