Healthy Student News - about 16+ year olds

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FOOD

Food Archive

2008.07

Keeping a food diary can double a person's weight loss

The quality of nutritional information available on popular Canadian websites: a content analysis

Weight Loss with a Low-Carbohydrate, Mediterranean, or Low-Fat Diet

Obesity levels in China are rising

Eating slowly led to decreases in energy intake within meals in healthy women

Trainee chefs, from The Bournemouth and Poole College on the Specialised Chefs Scholarship, celebrate finishing their studies in one of London’s finest hotels

 

DRUGS

Drugs Archive

2008.07

Are mass media interventions effective in preventing the uptake of smoking in children and young people?

Dutch law will allow cafe customers to light up tobacco-free pure cannabis joints but ban tobacco and cannabis joints

'We're stuck in the corner': Young women, embodiment and drinking in the countryside

Do US adolescents perceive police officers as credible instructors of substance abuse prevention programs?

There's alcohol in my soap: portrayal and effects of alcohol use in a popular Dutch television series

Toward a Global View of Alcohol, Tobacco, Cannabis, and Cocaine Use: Findings from the WHO World Mental Health Surveys

 

SEX

Sex Archive

2008.07

'It was as useful as a chocolate kettle': sex education in the lives of same-sex-attracted young people in Australia

Frequency of sex after an intervention to decrease sexual risk-taking among African-American adolescent girls: results of a randomized, controlled clinical trial

Young people blamed for rise in sex infection rates

 

EXERCISE

Exercise Archive

2008.07

Girls and young women's participation in physical activity: psychological and social influences

Students from Central Sussex College have created an Ultimate Frisbee team

Interventions to increase walking behavior

Chichester College's Etch Dance Company

 

HEALTH

Health Archive

2008.07

Health-Related Behaviors of Sudanese Adolescents

Bullies face even more health risks than victims

Girls who experience school failure can suffer a serious bout of depression at the age of 21

 

LIFESTYLE

Lifestyle Archive

2008.07

US study suggests loosing weight and stopping smoking would boost average life span by 1.3 years

Teenage drivers should be barred from drinking any alcohol

 

EDUCATION

Education Archive

2008.07

Adults who had improved nutrition in early childhood may score better on intellectual tests, regardless of the number of years they attended school

Students from Burton College qualify to carry out ear piercing

National Healthy FE programme launched to improve health and wellbeing of staff and students

Healthy College baseline data from SHEU surveys

 

OTHER

Other Archive

2008.07

The Centre for Excellence in Leadership presents Leading the Learner Voice Awards 2008

Behaviour remains good in the majority of schools and is actually improving

Healthy Youth Work - one of the workshops at the Rural Youth Network's September conference

 

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