Generation Next Blog

October 2013

The reason why we have ridiculous beauty standards

By |2013-11-04T15:29:38+11:00October 31st, 2013|Categories: Society & Culture|Tags: , , , , , , , |

Another day, another Photoshop horror story. In a matter of weeks, Kate Winslet and Naomi Campbell have been featured on magazine covers looking nothing like the real-life versions of themselves. We've seen that men aren't immune to a heavy handed edit either, and, almost a century after her death, news has surfaced that Jane Austen was airbrushed within an inch of her [...]

Perception of marijuana as a ‘safe drug’ is scientifically inaccurate

By |2013-10-29T14:23:11+11:00October 29th, 2013|Categories: Drugs & Alcohol, Society & Culture|Tags: , , , , |

The nature of the teenage brain makes users of cannabis amongst this population particularly at risk of developing addictive behaviors and suffering other long-term negative effects via Perception of marijuana as a 'safe drug' is scientifically inaccurate.

Why do haters have to hate? Newly identified personality trait holds clues

By |2013-10-29T14:21:41+11:00October 29th, 2013|Categories: Mental Health & Wellbeing, Science & Research|Tags: , , , , , |

New research has uncovered the reason why some people seem to dislike everything while others seem to like everything. Apparently, it's all part of our individual personality – a dimension that researchers have coined "dispositional attitude." via Why do haters have to hate? Newly identified personality trait holds clues.

Traffic pollution tied to autism risk

By |2013-10-29T14:20:39+11:00October 29th, 2013|Categories: Mental Health & Wellbeing, Science & Research|Tags: , , , , , |

Babies who are exposed to lots of traffic-related air pollution in the womb and during their first year of life are more likely to become autistic, according to a US study. The findings, which appeared in the Archives of General Psychiatry, support previous research linking how close children live to freeways to their risk of [...]

Put the books down and get active!

By |2013-10-29T14:16:42+11:00October 29th, 2013|Categories: Mental Health & Wellbeing|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |

With the HSC in full swing in NSW, parents will be all too aware of how stressful a time this can be for teenagers.   Whether you believe it should be a stressful time or not isn’t the point of this post. The fact is that research reveals that approximately 40% of Year 12 HSC [...]

Parents furious over Cricket Australia sponsorship decision

By |2013-10-29T14:09:47+11:00October 29th, 2013|Categories: Drugs & Alcohol, Society & Culture|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , |

GrogWatch is outraged that Cricket Australia has censored the messages of the WACA sponsor Healthway to ensure alcohol sponsors aren’t upset, as reported by The Sydney Morning Herald. Not only is the alcohol industry failing to self-regulate its own ads, but its now managing to squash health messages. This is not going unnoticed and concerned parents are hitting [...]

The disturbing world of ‘pretty or ugly’ videos

By |2013-10-29T14:19:19+11:00October 29th, 2013|Categories: Cybersafety|Tags: , , , , , , , |

When I was a teenager I would spend hours in my room singing into my hairbrush microphone in front of the mirror.  Go on, admit it, you probably did the same.  Indulging in some self-love is a fundamental right of childhood. For the kids of today the mirror has morphed into a small pixelated screen [...]

An Open Apology to All of My Weight Loss Clients

By |2013-10-29T13:39:18+11:00October 29th, 2013|Categories: Society & Culture|Tags: , , , , , |

And that's mostly why I'm sorry. Because I've been played for years, and so have you, and inadvertently, I fed into the lies you've been told your whole life. The lies that say that being healthy means nothing unless you are also thin. The lies that say that you are never enough, that your body [...]

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