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U.S. News & World Report
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, one-third of all teenagers are overweight and 17 percent are obese. Today's youth are eating too much and exercising too little. These teens, unfortunately, are more likely to suffer from anxiety and depression than kids that gravitate toward nutritional snacks and engage in frequent physical activity. Much research and, most notably, a 2011 study from the University of Melbourne in Australia find that children who eat well have fewer mental health issues than kids who have poor diets.
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ASHA
A strong wellness policy helps districts create lasting healthy school environments that support learning. Nationwide, wellness is "winning" in many districts thanks to stronger nutrition and physical activity policies and practices. We need your help to keep up the momentum! The #WellnessWins campaign empowers leaders like you to celebrate your successes and update your wellness policy by June 30. Whether you've already mastered your policy or are still strengthening it, #WellnessWins can help. Visit WellnessWins.org to explore free resources, inspiring success stories, an interactive quiz and more!
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ASHA
ASHA annually honors leaders in school health, awards scholarships for current and pre-service school health professionals who are ASHA members, and invites ASHA members to become future leaders. Recipients are recognized for outstanding accomplishments in school health or for service to ASHA and their profession. Each year, our award recipients are honored during ASHA's Annual School Health Conference. This year, ASHA is pleased to bring back the School Health Educator of the Year Award! Click on the following links to learn more about submitting for ASHA awards, ASHA scholarships, and ASHA's Future Leaders Academy.
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HealthDay News
Water is a better bet than sports drinks for young athletes, sports medicine specialists say. Most youngsters don't exert themselves at an intensity or duration that requires the extra sugar and salt contained in sports drinks, said Dr. Matthew Silvis. He is director of primary care sports medicine at Penn State Health Medical Center. "Sports drinks can replenish some of what you lost during exercise, but you really need to be exercising for more than 45 minutes to an hour before you would consider that," Silvis said.
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Youth Today
Shame affect is a complex, multidimensional emotion which has been identified in many children who have been abused or neglected. Situational shame is also experienced by many individuals when they are in shame-producing situations. These include places where they may feel a sense of exposure, ridicule or embarrassment. Many children who are brought in for therapy have a mixture of depression, anxiety, anger, shame and confusion.
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The Atlantic
Catching more sleep could help student-athletes catch more touchdowns, but some still argue sports schedules are a reason against moving back the first bell.
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The Conversation
Getting children off the sofa, away from the TV and outside can be a challenging task for any parent, particularly in the age of increasingly sedentary and screen-focused lives. To stay healthy, it is currently recommended that children do at least 60 minutes of moderate to vigorous physical activity daily. But this has been in decline in recent years. And now only 21 percent of boys and 16 percent of girls in England are meeting current recommendations. This lack of activity has major implications for the health of children, including an increased risk of obesity and diabetes. Research has also shown that this can impact children's mental health and well-being, along with their academic performance.
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HealthDay News
Everyone's heard about the dangers of secondhand smoke. Now, researchers say children can pick up nicotine on their hands "thirdhand." Kids can get high levels of nicotine on their hands just by touching items or surfaces contaminated with tobacco smoke residue, a small U.S. study found. The findings "show that children's hands hold high levels of nicotine even when parents are not smoking around them," said study co-author Dr. Melinda Mahabee-Gittens. She's with Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center's division of emergency medicine.
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Education World
New approaches to bullying intervention often focus less frequently today on the two students directly involved in the behavior ― the bully and victim ― and increasingly on the new approaches for bystanders and their key role in preventing incidents and reporting them. Getting witnesses to help stop bullies may mean training them in less traditional ways, experts say, involving social and emotional learning and even use of new technology that can make it easier and safer for them to act.
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Business Insider
In the U.S., a typical school lunch might consist of chicken, a whole-grain roll, and salad. But in France, students' plates might instead be filled with salmon and ratatouille. That's what the Associated Press and Reuters found when they set out to capture how American school lunches stack up against those served in other countries around the world. While most schools outside the US don't sell lunch, the ones that do usually feed their students healthy meals. Students abroad are more likely to go home for lunch or bring a home-cooked meal.
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