TV Bombards Children With Commercials For High-Fat And High-Sugar Foods

Literacy training can help children and adolescents understand both the economic motivations behind food advertising and the strategies used by industry to increase desire for their products. Greater awareness of the potential influence of industry may immunize young people from food advertising’s deleterious effects. In addition to literacy, able to read, how do we use social media to promote the “Is It Healthy” Game? [...]

Improved Patient Education May Play Key Role In Halting Diabetes Escalation

Dealing With Diabetes

With 24 million Americans diagnosed with diabetes and 10.5 million of those (44%) who report they do not have it under control, and 5.7 million (24%) don’t even know they have it yet, improved patient education seems like a critical first step to impacting the dire predictions for worldwide diabetes cases.

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