What an emotional subject Oprah tackled this week. On Monday, she talked with 16 overweight or obese teens and their parents from around the country. The families had also taken part in a daylong “intervention,” run by a husband and wife team, Rich and Yvonne Dutra-St. John, California-based therapists and intervention specialists, who got the [...]
Entries from January 29th, 2009
The Painful Side of Obesity, As Seen on Oprah
January 29th, 2009 by Karen Feldscher · No Comments · Parent Talk, Teen Health Talk
Tags: Childhood·exercise·fitness·nutrition·obesity·overweight·Parent Talk·Teen Health Talk·Teen Talk
Health IT: Getting a Plug from Social Media
January 26th, 2009 by Cindy Atoji · No Comments · Tech Talk, Teen Health Talk
Let’s talk about healthcare and technology, and in particular, pushing health concepts by using social media. First: setting the landscape. Compared to other industries—finance and retail—healthcare is in the dark ages with technology. Physicians have been slow to adopt electronic medical records, and only 8 percent of doctors are truly e-prescribing. HHMS Secretary Michael Leavitt [...]
Tags: health IT·healthcare·mobile technology·social media·Tech Talk
Why Are Girls Less Active Than Boys? Some thoughts…
January 21st, 2009 by Karen Feldscher · 1 Comment · Parent Talk, Teen Talk
I remember all too well my primary physical activity as a sixth grader: “cantering” around the schoolyard with my girlfriends as we all pretended to be various types of horses. // Not your typical kind of exercise, to be sure. But after reading about new research that found that girls are less physically active than [...]
Food For Thought: A Recipe For Family Dinners
January 16th, 2009 by Kim Keough · No Comments · Parent Talk
Have you seen this Norman Rockwell painting before? Freedom From Want portrays the American dinner table as a warm and jubilant gathering of family. Many deem this painting to symbolize a typical sit-down dinner and what it means to every family. SouthCoastToday.com just published a story on teen nutrition listing how participating in family mealtime [...]
A Proposed State Campaign Takes Steps Toward Battling Obesity
January 13th, 2009 by Angela Lee · No Comments · Parent Talk, Teen Health Talk, Teen Talk
// // Let’s face it. We are a country of obese, and statistics show we’re only getting bigger. Fortunately, we’ve begun to fight America’s obesity upsurge—or at least, New York City, California and a few other states have. In a recent Boston Globe article, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick announced his administration’s anti-obesity campaign that would become [...]
Don’t Forget the Milk, and Other Nifty New Sites for Apps
January 9th, 2009 by Kim Keough · No Comments · Tech Talk
Ho, ho, ho. It seems that Santa was on the information super highway this Christmas. Going digital seems to be paving new paths, even for old Kris Kringle by way of Twitter, personalized video messages, text messaging, video chatting, and live mapping. What could possibly be ahead for 2009? The Guardian Newspaper just released their [...]
Tags: mobile·social networking·Tech Talk·Teen Talk·text messaging
When “love” is not OK: Abuse in Teen Dating
January 6th, 2009 by Karen Feldscher · 1 Comment · Teen Health Talk, Teen Talk
If this isn’t scary, I don’t know what is: Studies and surveys have found that between 10 and 30 percent of teens get abused or harassed while they’re dating. And much of this abuse is taking place via technology–through cell phones or on the Internet. // In a Jan. 4 article on the subject, the [...]
BodiMojo Looks Ahead to 2009
January 1st, 2009 by Tara Cousineau, PhD · No Comments · All Things BodiMojo, Tech Talk
The year’s end often brings reflections on the good and the bad, the best and the worst, but BodiMojo is too new to have such perspective. Looking back, we are immensely proud to have won a Small Business Innovative Research Award from the National Institutes of Health – seed money – to get our online [...]
Tags: bodimojo·boditude·body image·childhood obesity·motivation·Tech Talk