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Three years ago, if you had logged onto my computer and looked at my recent history, you would have discovered I frequently trawled through pro-eating disordered websites. There are communities of males and females of varying ages on sites such as Live Journal, Tumblr, Facebook and MySpace all promoting anorexia as a lifestyle choice, rather [...]
Health experts are alarmed by school and university students routinely going on alcohol blinders, as new figures show more than 1000 children were treated at Perth hospital emergency departments last year for alcohol or drug use. Researchers and doctors say teenagers are drinking more and at younger ages, putting them on a path of regular [...]
ONE in three of Australia's state school principals was physically attacked or witnessed physical violence in their workplace last year, a survey has found. And most of the violence involved aggressive parents rather than students or teachers, principals told The Age. In Catholic schools, one in five principals said they had been exposed to physical [...]
Young teens who watch a lot of movies featuring alcohol are twice as likely to start drinking as their peers who watch relatively few such films, reveals new research from Dartmouth's Norris Cotton Cancer Center that is published in the online journal BMJ Open. Moreover, these teens are significantly more likely to progress to binge [...]
Girlfriend’s ‘Reality Check’ has become a farce. But some positives in the March issue reports Melinda Tankar Reist in a new series aimed at keeping the spotlight on teen mags. Girlfriend magazine seems to have forgotten what its ‘Self Respect REALITY CHECK’ was intended for. A recap – it was designed to be an upfront [...]
Raise Your Grades Along With Your Heart-rate! The link between physical activity and improved physical and mental health has long been established. However there is a growing body of research that suggests that increased physical activity levels in students also leads to improved academic performance. In this research review by John Ratey and Jacob Sattelmair [...]
The overwhelming message is that opportunities for actors who are, or look like, ''ethnics'' are significantly lower than for whites and that Australian TV networks are failing to represent the racial and ethnic make-up of what is one of the most culturally diverse countries on the planet. via Diversity still out of the picture | [...]
What is Cybersmart? Cybersmart is a national cybersafety and cybersecurity education program managed by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA), as part of the Australian Government’s commitment to cybersafety. The program is specifically designed to meet the needs of its target audiences of children, young people, parents, teachers and library staff. Cybersmart aims to: [...]
Evidence-based pregnancy warning labels on alcohol products are cost effective, have the potential to prevent cases of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders and should be mandatory, according to government research. Yet these findings run counter to a decision made by the Ministerial Council on Food Regulation last year to allow the industry to continue with their [...]
Schoolchildren need compulsory alcohol education from the age of 9 or 10, according to Children's Commissioner Michelle Scott.Speaking ahead of the first day of the school year, she said programs needed to start in middle primary school before children's attitudes started to develop, after recent WA research showed 30 per cent of 14 to 17-year-olds [...]
