For the mental and physical health of students
This study tells us there is a need to rethink how we address mental and physical health in our nation’s high schools. Our current trajectory clearly isn’t working, not when we’re graduating students who are ill-equipped to cope with daily, real-world challenges and who face the high likelihood of chronic illnesses like diabetes and heart disease that accompany excessive body weight.
Our rhetoric about our children being our future should be accompanied by evidence-based educational approaches that can generate healthy, productive lives. Our youth deserve that chance.
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Childbirth Food Mental Health Nutrition Source Type: blogs
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