Enjoying the Summer
It’s the end of the school year and I just finished all of my finals! I really liked my sophomore year. Even though it had a lot of ups and downs, it was a great experience. This is my first summer working with the Center…
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What Kids Need to Know Before They Start Dating
I recently read an article in the New York Times about a program in Idaho that is going to mentor middle and high school students about healthy relationships in order to reduce the rate of unhealthy relationships. The author mentioned that most teens don’t know…
Modeling a Positive Body Image
My thermometer dial has been stubbornly stuck in the 90’s for a couple days now, which is proof enough for me that summer has started. It’s hot, hot, hot, and all around the layers are coming off, off, off. And we know what inevitably coincides…
Two Wrongs Don’t Make a Right… Turn
This morning, while I was getting a ride to work, we got caught in traffic. You know how they say that Boston people have the worst road rage, right? Well… we were sitting at the same light for a good ten minutes. There was so…
Living with HIV: Worries, Concerns, Hardships
HIV affects thousands of teens and young adults. Between 2006 and 2009, 29,740 teens and young adults between the ages of 13-24 were diagnosed with HIV. In 2009, the young adults between the ages of 20-24 accounted for the highest rate of new HIV diagnoses….
You’re Not Special
I just read the commencement speech given by David McCullough Jr. at Wellesley High School (Wellesley, Massachusetts) titled “You’re Not Special”. I was surprised by the title and found it hard to believe that a speaker would tell students at their high school graduation that…
Push Girls
Have you seen the new reality show on the Sundance channel called “Push Girls”? It premiered on June 4th, and tells the real story about the lives of four women living in LA who met after they became paralyzed. Three of the young women are paraplegics (paralyzed…
Health Insurance 101
Jenny had an appointment with her doctor a few weeks ago. Today she received a bill from her health insurance company. She looked at the bill but couldn’t make any sense out of it. Co-pay? Deductibles? “What do these words mean?” she thought. “Why do…
PCOS and Vitamin D Deficiency
Vitamin D deficiency (not having enough vitamin D) is fairly common among teens in general. However, new research shows that girls with PCOS are more likely than other girls (without a diagnosis of PCOS) to be deficient in vitamin D. There’s also a lot of…
Skechers Shape-Ups – Proven Sketchy!
The first time I heard about Sketchers Shape-Up shoes I knew they weren’t going to be a success. It was like I was watching another commercial on diet pills that help you lose weight fast without changing your diet. It’s all a scam, because there’s…