Eliminating health disparities requires community involvement
...tivity program for African American pre-adolescent girls in Chicago. The authors attribute success of the Lively Ladies program to a sound theoretical basis, as well as participants ownership of the program; fun, novel, goal-oriented activities; provision of positive role models; reinforcements for partici...ANN ARBOR---Adolescent girls who feel confident about their physical abilities enjoy exercise more than those girls who go into the activity doubting their skills, according to a study to be published in the March is...Certain behaviors can predict binge-eating disorders in teenage girls
...nked to binge eating. Low peer support increased a girls risk, but low parental support did not have any ef...ating tendencies. The study followed more than 200 girls enrolled in the ninth or tenth grade at two unidentified private high schools in northern California...Yale study shows 25 percent of obese children are at high risk for developing diabetes
...betes. The condition also was more prevalent among girls than boys. Impaired glucose tolerance was detecte... glucose intolerance to diabetes. Fourteen of the girls had polycystic ovary syndrome, which causes symptoms such as menstrual irregularities, hirsutism due...Obesity growing threat to world health
...o industrialized lifestyles." For example, in 1860 girls in England reached puberty between 14 and 15. Now ... is also a correlation with fatness. In this case, girls who reach puberty earlier are likely to be chubbier and have heavier children, both sons and daughte...Maternal feeding practices are linked to childhood obesity
...valuated 74 white and 46 African American boys and girls averaging 11 years old by obtaining height and weight measurements and determining their total fat mass using dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry. Each mother participated in a brief, in-person interview asking about her child-feeding attitudes and her ...Mothers attitudes toward childrens eating linked to childrens obesity
...s followed 120 white and African-American boys and girls ranging in age from 7 to 14, recording their body fat using dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA). They also asked mothers about their child-feeding attitudes. They found no relationship between variations in total body fat and the childs gender, so...Tanning lamps may increase risks of skin cancers
... of high schoolers found that at least half of the girls reported using a commercial tanning bed at least four times in the past year. Suggestions from the public health and medical community have included restricting tanning device use in minors and requiring written informed consent from adults. The use...Trunk fat causes heavy load for boys
...uish fat and lean tissues. This study included 442 girls (145 African American, 161 Asian and 136 Caucasian...were found between African American, and Caucasian girls only, with African-American girls being 3 mm Hg higher on average. For diastolic, there were race d...Supportive homes mean less risky sex among black adolescent females
...y to have steady partners who use condoms than are girls from unsupportive families, according to a new stu... Journal of Health Promotion, also showed that the girls from supportive families were almost three times more likely to have used a condom during sex in the...Psychologists identify best aggression-prevention programs in schools
...mentary school students, focusing on aggression in girls as well as boys, and conducting programs in natura...a very young age and occur almost as frequently in girls as they do in boys, says Stephen Leff, Ph.D., psychologist at Childrens Hospital and principal inves...How 'negative emotionality' can make you feel sick
...y alcohol use goes on during adolescence, and that girls report more adverse effects than boys. Clearly," she added, "alcohol use disorders during both adolescence and adulthood have important ramifications for an individual's medical health, mental health, and cognitive functioning." "What this study hig...... survival rate between vaccinated and unvaccinated girls was in proportion to the increase in survival between vaccinated and unvaccinated boys, and was therefore not statistically significant. The study by Dr. Koenig and colleagues does not address why measles vaccine provides this disproportionate benef...Teens' second pregnancy rates lower with long-term contraceptives
...if there is no social service intervention to help girls appreciate the value of contraception, says author...nd her colleagues looked at pregnancy rates in 350 girls participating in the Colorado Adolescent Maternity Program, which covered prenatal and postnatal car...Providing better playgrounds could improve children's physical activity
...ith four times as many boys and five times as many girls being physically active during free time, say Jame... says. However, on average fewer than 2 percent of girls and 6 percent of boys were physically active at school outside of physical education classes. At the...Gender-specific intervention may be needed to improve diets of african-american youth
Emotional support may help African-American girls switch to healthier diets but could have a reverse...es, including reduction of salt. The study found girls who successfully followed the low-sodium diet reported having more emotional support from their fami...UNC-CH to lead $34 million effort to see if girls can become more fit
...ato syndrome." For example, half of all adolescent girls in this country fail to exercise vigorously enough...ote health and reduce their risk of obesity. "When girls hit middle school, many of them stop being physically active," Stevens said. "We want to find out if...New study finds 18 football players died in 1999 season, eight paralyzed
...unds heavier than she was. Last year, 708 U.S. girls played football on boys' school teams, the UNC-CH professor said. "Coaches need to remind players to keep the head out of football," Mueller said. "No player should make first contact with his head when blocking and tackling." During steamy ...Eating disorders more common among girls with diabetes
...s Eating disorders are almost twice as common in girls with type 1 diabetes as in non-diabetic girls of the same age, putting them at increased risk of complications, according to a study in this week'...The gender effect: fatherhood spurs men to work longer hours -- especially if it's a boy!
...ound a significant gap between fathers of boys and girls that left them astonished. "This type of finding is not unusual for, say, rural India," said Rose, who has studied the economics of gender and the family in Asia. "But I was absolutely shocked to see such a strong effect for the U.S. Gender bias is...