Health & Exercise

The Importance of an Active Life Over the past decade, the fact that young people need to stay active has been well documented in scores of books, scientific journals, health and wellness websites and parenting blogs. It’s now common knowledge that regular exercise helps in the fight against obesity, which can stave off a number of serious health conditions later in life, such as hypertension, cardiac disease, liver problems, kidney

Body Image and the Media It’s widely recognized in the U.S. and around the world that young women are susceptible to developing body image issues. This phenomenon is a direct result of film, media, and advertising: for decades, images of thin women wearing bikini bathing suits have been used to sell everything from deodorant to automobiles to alcohol. Photographs in print and online media regularly make use of airbrush and/or

The Mind of a Teenager What’s going on in the mind of a teenager? That’s a million-dollar question. If parents, teachers or doctors could figure that out, a great deal of the stress of parenting teenagers would be relieved. Teenagers sometimes do things that, to quote the famous song by Will Smith, “Parents just don’t understand.” Though some teenagers rarely step out of line, most parents of teenagers find that

ADHD: A Very Brief History Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) first became an officially recognized diagnosis by the medical community in the late 1980s. Before then, it was referred to by various names—Attention Deficit Disorder With and Without Hyperactivity (early 1980s), Hyperactivity (1970s), and Hyperkinetic Reaction of Childhood (1950s-1960s). Pediatricians and children’s health care specialists have known of the condition for over 200 years. However, the definition of ADHD currently

Modern Medicine and Complementary Medicine Modern medicine is truly amazing. In 2014, people are able to survive accidents and live with diseases that even as recently as 50 years ago would have been debilitating or even fatal. X-ray and MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) technologies allow us to peer inside our bodies without the damage caused by invasive, exploratory surgeries. Blood testing allows us to identify and pursue the treatment of