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		<title>A Unit of Their Own: Addressing the Special Needs of Hospitalized Teen Cancer Patients</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 14:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bonnie Rochman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At her Seattle high school, Shannon Keating wears a hat to camouflage a head made bare by chemotherapy. In the hospital, surrounded by other teens her age, she&#8217;s more comfortable going bald. “I feel fine not wearing a hat because you know everyone went through the same loss,” says the 15-year-old who is being treated for stage 2 Hodgkins lymphoma. That sense of camaraderie can be critical for young adults battling cancer. It’s the inspiration behind the unit at Seattle Children’s Hospital where Shannon is being treated — the nation’s first inpatient cancer ward devoted to treating teens and young adults, a group whose survival rates have stubbornly bucked the upward trend experienced by younger and older patients. Doctors aren’t sure why that is. Is there something different about the biology of a cancer in someone in their teens or twenties? Perhaps. In one study of kids up to age 18, children older than 10 cleared a common chemotherapy drug, cyclophosphamide, from their bodies much faster than younger kids; the less a drug lingers, the less likely it is to be as effective. For Dr. Becky Johnson, medical director of the adolescent and young adult program at Seattle Children’s Hospital, the need for the new unit is both personal and professional. She was 27 and a medical resident when she was diagnosed with breast cancer. That was 17 years ago, but she still recalls how isolated she felt when she discovered that support groups consisted of women in their 60s. “There was no mechanism for finding other young patients, nothing at all,” says Johnson. “The whole time I was treated, I’d look around the waiting room for people who were young.” (MORE: Pediatricians Say Cell Phone Radiation Standards Need Another Look) The concept of creating a “medical home” for cancer patients perched between childhood and adulthood is attracting interest in other parts of the country. Hospitals in Cleveland and Los Angeles are constructing similar units, acknowledging that the young-adult demographic has long been a somewhat forgotten population in the cancer world.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=86051&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Q&amp;A: American Girl&#8217;s &#8220;The Care &amp; Keeping of You 2&#8243; Tackles Puberty</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/04/26/qa-the-care-keeping-of-you-2-guides-girls-through-puberty/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 17:40:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bonnie Rochman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sexual Health]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cara Natterson]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The sequel to the popular The Care and Keeping of You, which guided preteen girls on buying bras, healthy eating habits and dealing with their periods, ventures into the hormone and angst-ridden world of adolescents. In the follow-up, published by purveyor of wholesome dolls American Girl, Dr. Cara Natterson continues the tradition of offering kids some sound advice for navigating their trying times. If you&#8217;re sitting at the dinner table and someone says or does something that seems unreasonable, for example, Natterson recommends excusing yourself from the table. Then work off that frustration with some jumping jacks, scribble in a journal, strum a guitar or scream into a pillow — anything to help channel the anger and restore a sense of control. “You have to identify in the good moments what you are going to do in the bad moments,” says Natterson. And the advice isn&#8217;t just for the girls: “Parents read this book as much as kids,” she says. It’s true. A couple months ago, I got my hands on a copy of the original while bunking overnight in a friend’s daughter’s room. I was riveted — and talked to Natterson about her perspective on why The Care and Keeping of You has been the literary gateway for so many girls hitting puberty. What has changed since the original book was published in 1998? The biggest change is the online world. In 1998, the Internet was very different. It was not nearly as pervasive. There were no smartphones. The way in which kids socialize and the way in which they get their information is really different now than when the book came out. And girls and boys are going through puberty a little bit earlier so they want this information at a younger age. What’s the main difference between the two books? The original The Care and Keeping of You 1 is a big, broad overview of how to grow up healthfully. We cover nutrition, exercise, hygiene, breasts [Although Natterson didn't author the original volume, she updated it in the<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=85204&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>‘Cinnamon Challenge’ Could Trigger Lasting Lung Damage</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/04/22/cinnamon-challenge-continues-to-prove-hazardous-to-teens-health/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 18:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexandra Sifferlin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Swallowing a tablespoon of the dry spice on a dare could lead to serious health problems, according to the latest report on the practice. The so-called cinnamon challenge went viral in 2012 as over 50,000 video clips of people attempting to swallow a tablespoon of cinnamon in under 60 seconds popped up on YouTube — along with the inevitable gagging, coughing and misery of the unsuccessful dares. Excessive amounts of cinnamon, as the teens in the videos now know, can cause burning and inflammation of sensitive tissues in the mouth, nose and throat, and led to a spike in calls to poison-control centers. The American Association of Poison Control Centers (AAPCC) reported that in the first three months of 2012, these centers received 139 calls for cinnamon abuse, 122 of which were related to the cinnamon challenge. Thirty of those people required immediate medical attention. (MORE: Cinnamon Challenge, Popular With Teens, Proves Risky) Now a new study published in the journal Pediatrics details more health harms related to the dare. The latest data, the authors of the study say, showed that 222 calls came in to poison centers in 2012 related to the stunt, compared with 51 calls in 2011. Some teens were treated for collapsed lungs and required ventilators after attempting the challenge. When swallowed by the tablespoon, powdered cinnamon coats and dries out the mouth, making swallowing difficult. Cinnamon also contains a substance called cellulose that can stick in the lungs and compromise their ability to exchange oxygen and carbon dioxide. The study authors acknowledge that while these effects are usually temporary, people who have asthma or more delicate lungs could be at greater risk of more serious breathing problems if they try the stunt. “The cellulose doesn’t break down,” Dr. Steven Lipshultz, one of the authors of the study from the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine said to the New York Times. “So when it gets into the lungs it sits there long term, and if it’s coated with this caustic cinnamon oil, that leads to chronic inflammation and eventually scarring of the<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=85023&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pushing Teens to Change Their Eating Habits Could Backfire</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/04/22/parents-eating-habits-are-passed-to-their-kids/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 16:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexandra Sifferlin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Diet]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Parents who exert too much control over what their children eat may not be doing their adolescents any favors when it comes to controlling the youngsters&#8217; weight, according to the latest study. Researchers report in the journal Pediatrics that pressure from parents to clean plates or to restrict eating high-calorie foods such as sweets and sugared sodas may not help teens to maintain a healthy weight. (MORE: Want to Live Longer? Don’t Try Caloric Restriction) The analysis included two studies of 2,231 students, with an average age of 14 years old in Minnesota, and 3,500 parents. The scientists assessed how moms and dads influenced their teens&#8217; eating habits by rating their responses to statements such as, &#8220;My child should always eat all of the food on his or her plate&#8221; or &#8220;If my child says, &#8216;I am not hungry,&#8217; I try to get him or her to eat anyway.&#8221; The parents also provided their views on statements such as, &#8220;If I did not guide or regulate my child&#8217;s eating, he or she would eat too much of his or her favorite food.&#8221; Overall, parents of obese children were most likely to report that they needed to make sure their kids were not eating too many high-fat and sugary foods, while parents of nonoverweight kids were more likely to think their adolescents should eat all the food on their plate at each meal. Dads were more likely to pressure their kids to clean their plates, and adolescent boys tended to be pushed more than girls to eat more. While such attention to children&#8217;s eating habits is certainly laudable, and parents are presumably guided by the best intentions, the results suggest that overly restrictive supervision of eating habits could backfire since such excessive control could actually increase, rather than reduce teens&#8217; weight. Changing perceptions of normal weight may be playing a role in some of the parental pressure, while ballooning portion sizes may actually make some of the clean-plate advice unhealthy for adolescents. &#8220;I was surprised at some of the parent behaviors, like<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=84984&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Study Shows Seeing Smiles Can Lower Aggression</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/04/04/study-shows-seeing-smiles-can-lower-aggression/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 11:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maia Szalavitz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A happy face can certainly lift spirits, but can it reduce rage? Studies have documented that the physical act of smiling is a universal, and effective way to lift mood, if briefly. But in the latest research on the power of the smile, researchers led by Marcus Munafo of the University of Bristol in England found that even seeing smiles on the faces of others can have a profound effect on a person&#8217;s tendency toward violence or aggression— that is, as long as that person recognizes the smile as one of happiness, and not as a sneer. Munafo and his colleagues conducted a series of experiments involving normal adults as well as highly aggressive teens who had been referred to a youth program, either by educational authorities or the courts. About 70% of the teens already had a criminal record. (MORE: How to Lift Your Mood? Try Smiling) In the first experiment, 40 healthy adults, aged 18-30, looked at computer images of faces that had been morphed to show facial expressions that ranged from happy to angry with increasingly difficult to discern expressions in between. Participants were asked how angry they felt and then had to rate the images as displaying either happiness or anger — there was no option for “ambiguous” or “unable to tell.” From these ratings, the scientists were able to generate a score of their biases toward happiness or anger as reflected by where the volunteers decided that happiness ended and anger began. Previous research found that aggressive people — including violent offenders — tend to interpret even neutral expressions as hostile: “You looking at me?” can easily turn what would have been a nonevent into a tragic confrontation, so preventing such misinterpretations could have important implications. (MORE: Brain Scans Can Predict Which Criminals Are Likely to Get Re-Arrested) Based on their initial scores, half of the healthy participants were then told by the computer that some of the ambiguous faces that they had rated as angry should have been scored as happy. This was intended<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=83812&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How Junior High Friendships Affect Adult Relationships</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/04/02/how-junior-high-friendships-affect-adult-relationships/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2013 17:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maia Szalavitz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Middle school is typically a time of chaotic emotions, confusing relationships and challenging growing pains. But it may also have a surprisingly lasting influence on the future. In a study published in Child Development, researchers found that adolescents who were best able to negotiate the relationship minefield of finding friends and making sound behavior choices were most likely to be rated by their parents as successful both socially and professionally when they became young adults. “We tend to think that peer relationships in early adolescence don’t mean that much, but that tends to be dead wrong,” says Joseph Allen, a professor of psychology at the University of Virginia. “How well you do with peers as an early teen tells us a whole lot about how you manage in a lot of different ways as an adult.” (MORE: How Texting and IMing Helps Introverted Teens) Allen and his colleagues followed 184 youths from a public middle school in the Southeast, which included kids from both urban and suburban neighborhoods. They interviewed the teens’ parents as well as other adolescents that they identified as their closest friends annually for three years, starting when the participants were around 13. The authors followed up again when they were ages 20 to 23. “What we’re finding is that the path is not straightforward, it’s more like a tightrope walk between trying to connect well with peers on one side and avoiding getting swept up into peer influences toward deviant behavior like delinquency and drug use on the other,” says Allen. Indeed, the study showed that teens who best resisted peer pressure during junior high were less likely to engage in criminal behavior or to have alcohol or drug problems. Unfortunately, this ability to resist peer pressure can also be isolating; this same group also had fewer and weaker friendships as adults. (MORE: Relationships 101: Having a Supportive Mom Helps You Commit) Those who had the strongest interactions as adults, not surprisingly, were teens who walked a middle ground, remaining open to peer influence, but not allowing themselves<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=83573&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Unhealthy Teens Could Lead to Rise in Heart-Disease Rates</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/04/01/unhealthy-teens-could-lead-to-rise-in-heart-disease-rates/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2013 09:45:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alice Park</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Less than half of U.S. adolescents are living heart-healthy lives, and lack of exercise and poor diets could be creating a new generation of heart-disease patients. It’s no surprise that American adolescents aren’t the healthiest eaters, and that they aren’t as physically active as they should be. But the latest survey confirms the fear that the current generation of teens could be at greater risk of heart disease than their parents if they don’t change their behaviors. Christina Shay, an epidemiologist at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, led a study of 4,673 teens ages 12 years old to 19 years old who participated in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys between 2005 and &#8217;10. The volunteers answered questions about their eating and exercise habits by phone once every two years and also provided occasional blood samples and were examined in person at mobile centers to record their blood pressure, weight and height. The sample is demographically representative of the 33.2 million adolescents in the U.S. As in previous studies, Shay and her colleagues found that these teens were a sedentary group that ate unhealthy foods. More than 80% ate what the researchers rated as a poor diet — high in fast foods and processed foods as well as sugar-sweetened drinks, and low in fruits and vegetables and whole-grain products. The scientists ranked the children’s heart-disease risk behaviors according to how well they complied with the seven factors that the American Heart Association (AHA) recently defined as critical for optimal heart health: maintaining a healthy body weight; eating a healthy diet; being physically active; keeping blood pressure, cholesterol and blood glucose within normal ranges; and not smoking. If the teens met the recommended requirements, their behavior was rated as ideal; if they fell short, their compliance was considered poor; and if they fell in between, the researchers ranked them as intermediate. Only 45% of boys and 50% of girls in the study met five or more of these criteria, and less than 1% of the teens were eating<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=83364&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>When It Comes to Curbing Drinking, College Students Do Listen</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/03/29/when-it-comes-to-curbing-drinking-college-students-do-listen/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Mar 2013 18:01:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maia Szalavitz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the more effective ways to reduce excessive drinking in college is also the most obvious &#8212; talk to freshman before they set foot on campus. It turns out that discussing drinking in any way, including why some teens drink while others abstain, as well as the potential dangers of over-indulging, during the summer before students start school can both reduce the odds that light drinkers will escalate their alcohol intake, and increase the likelihood that already heavy-drinking teens will cut down or stop, according to new research. Rob Turrisi of Penn State University and his colleagues surveyed 1,900 students and their parents just before the teens started college and again during the fall of their freshman and sophomore years.  Their parents agreed to be randomized into one of four groups.  One group used a handbook provided by the researchers to guide discussions, which occurred before freshman year, with their teens about drinking. The conversations were designed to be casual and nonjudgmental, with the parents providing accurate information about the reality of underage drinking and its risks, such as alcoholism and alcohol poisoning. “The materials are designed for parents to pick and chose what they think is most important and what they think they can do best, given the individual relationship they have with their sons or daughters,” says Turrisi, “It respects the individuality and  uniqueness of each relationship.  That said, it will differ from family to family.” Some of the topics included why some teenagers drink while others abstain, alternative ways of getting the effects people seek from alcohol, as well as parents&#8217; own drinking habits that served as models for responsible alcohol consumption. MORE: Why College Students Binge Drink:  Status Another group did the same thing, with some additional “booster” discussions later on. The third group didn&#8217;t start the discussion until after the students had already begun school and the fourth was a control group where parents were not instructed to take any particular action. Before starting college, 51% of the students were nondrinkers, defined as not having had<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=83325&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why New York&#8217;s Latest Campaign To Lower Teen Pregnancy Could Backfire</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/03/28/why-new-yorks-latest-campaign-to-lower-teen-pregnancy-could-backfire/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2013 19:30:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maia Szalavitz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To lower teen pregnancy rates in the city, the mayor is relying on fear, guilt and shame. But how effective are such approaches in changing behavior? The messages on the posters are not subtle, and they&#8217;re not meant to be: a crying toddler with the caption, “I’m twice as likely not to graduate high school because you had me as a teen,” reads one, while another shows a little girl saying, “Honestly Mom… chances are he won’t stay with you. What happens to me?” Appearing in New York’s subways, these messages are part of a new campaign to reduce teen pregnancy in the city that has stirred significant controversy. Bronx councilwoman Annabel Palma, who had a son at age 17, said in a letter sent to the city&#8217;s Human Resources Administration (HRA) complaining about the campaign that &#8220;Its dismissive tone perpetuates hurtful stereotypes about teen parents and their children. Moreover, it discounts HRA&#8217;s own pregnancy prevention services and instead imbeds[sic] fear in those who are in the situation I was in not so long ago.&#8221; Though New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg typically supports evidence-based public health initiatives, such as his ban on trans fat from restaurant foods after studies showed their health hazards, with this one, he may have missed that boat. Bloomberg has defended the so-called fear campaign, which also includes a text message game where one pregnant teen is called a “loser” (it was originally “fat loser,” but that has been changed) by her best friend.  He told the New York Times that the city’s message shouldn’t be “value neutral” about teen pregnancy and that he wanted to “send a strong message that teen pregnancy has consequences — and those consequences are extremely negative, life-altering and most often disproportionately borne by young women.” But how effective are such strong, and negatively toned strategies in changing behavior? Research on other attempts to use shame to address obesity, smoking and drug addictions suggests that the results are not good. With addictions, for example, research shows that shame is ineffective<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=82857&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A High School Where the Students Are the Teachers</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/03/27/a-high-school-where-the-students-are-the-teachers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2013 09:45:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexandra Sifferlin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If high school students took charge of their education with limited supervision, would they learn? A Massachusetts school is finding out. &#8220;Some kids say, I hate science or I hate math, but what they are really saying is: I hate science class or I hate math class,&#8221; says high school senior Matt Whalan. Whalan is writing a novel. That&#8217;s a notable feat for a 17-year-old, and he has a semester to finish it. Whalan is enrolled in the Monument Mountain Regional High School&#8217;s Independent Project, an alternative program described as a &#8220;school within a school,&#8221; founded and run by students. The semester-long program is in its third year, and Whalan has completed the program three times during his high school career and says it has saved his grades. &#8220;I&#8217;ve been a writer all through high school, and my grades were suffering because I was devoted to writing instead of school,&#8221; says Whalan. Thankfully, that changed for him when a fellow schoolmate launched the Independent Project at the Great Barrington, Mass., school. (MORE: Motivation, Not IQ, Matters Most for Learning New Math Skills) Sam Levin, an alum of Monument who is currently a sophomore at the University of Oxford in England studying biological sciences, started the program in 2010. Frustrated with his public-high-school schedule and realizing that his friends weren&#8217;t inspired to learn, Levin complained to his mother about how unhappy he and his classmates were, to which she responded: &#8220;Why don&#8217;t you just make your own school?&#8221; And so he did — albeit in small steps. In ninth grade, Levin started a school-wide garden that was solely cared for by students; some woke up early on Saturdays to work with the plants. The garden is still functioning and serves at-need families in the community. After witnessing the commitment that his classmates had to nurturing something they had created themselves, Levin was convinced that they were capable of putting more time and energy into their studies — as long as it was something they cared about. &#8220;I was seeing the exact opposite in school. Kids weren’t even doing the things<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=82868&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bullying: For Gay and Lesbian Teens, Does Life Get Better After School?</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/02/04/bullying-for-gay-and-lesbian-teens-does-life-get-better-after-school/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2013 10:45:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bonnie Rochman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two years ago, columnist and Seattle gay-rights advocate Dan Savage launched the “It Gets Better” project on YouTube. In reassuring video clips, adults promised homosexual kids — who are bullied and attempt suicide more than their straight peers — that life would get easier once they finished high school. But does it really? Joseph Robinson, an assistant professor of educational psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, decided to apply a researcher’s eye to the question. In a new study, he concludes that yes, it does get better — for the most part. “The sentiment of the It Gets Better campaign is that things will get better because chances are you are not going to be bullied later in life,” says Robinson. “This is the first time we have strong empirical evidence to suggest it does get better.” Most existing research focused only on whether lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) kids were bullied in high school. No good data had followed students annually as they progressed through their teen years. So Robinson turned to information collected in 2004 from the U.K.’s Department for Education on the experiences of 4,135 children who were ages 13 and 14; he also looked at data from 2010 when the same kids were ages 19 and 20. “I was particularly interested in these data because we don’t have anything like this,” says Robinson. “I thought, This is the perfect opportunity to see if it does get better.” The survey, which asked the students about their experiences with bullying, provided the perfect opportunity for comparing how rates of bullying changed over their lifetimes. According to Robinson’s research, which was published in the journal Pediatrics absolute rates of bullying declined over time for all students, regardless of sexual orientation. In the study, over half of LGB students reported being bullied at ages 13 or 14; less than 10% reported bullying at ages 19 or 20. (MORE: New Insight into the (Epi)Genetic Roots of Homosexuality) LGB youth are bullied almost twice as often as heterosexual youth in high<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=79435&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Personality May Matter in Preventing Alcoholism</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/01/28/why-personality-may-matter-in-preventing-alcoholism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2013 21:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maia Szalavitz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A program that takes personality into account may help to identify and reduce teen-drinking rates. Researchers studied 2,643 ninth-graders in England, ages 13 or 14 years old, for a project known as the Adventure trial. Teachers were trained to provide alcohol-abuse interventions to children with four personality traits that put them at high risk of problem drinking and drug use: being sensitive to anxiety, feeling hopeless, being impulsive and seeking thrills. Each of the 21 schools the students attended was randomly assigned to either provide an Adventure intervention, which was specifically targeted at children with these profiles, or the standard drug-education programs that relied on a national addiction-prevention curriculum. The students were asked about their drinking habits — such as binge drinking and how often they drank — every six months for two years. By the end of the study, all of the students who attended the schools using the targeted interventions showed a 29% lower rate of drinking compared with the children in schools relying on the traditional drug-education programs. The high-risk teens also had a 43% lower rate of binge drinking than similarly at-risk adolescents at the control schools. Having symptoms of an actual drinking problem — like difficulties in school or dangerous behavior — was reduced by 42% among high-risk students receiving targeted interventions and by 24% among the low-risk group who attended the targeted school, compared with those receiving the traditional drug-prevention programs. (MORE: Study: Men and Women Benefit in Different Ways from AA) That&#8217;s a significant reduction in drinking, say the authors. In contrast, typical prevention programs like D.A.R.E. (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) either don’t reduce drinking at all or only cut binging by around 10%, according to a recent Cochrane review. What&#8217;s more, these programs generally fail to address the cause of teen drinking, which means they often can&#8217;t provoke long-term changes in drinking behavior. “A mental-health approach to alcohol and drug prevention looks like it’s much more effective and promising than simple drug education or alcohol education,” says Patricia Conrod, who is affiliated with<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=78908&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What Bystanders Can Do to Stop Rape</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/01/11/what-bystanders-can-do-to-stop-rape/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2013 13:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maia Szalavitz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When a heavily intoxicated 16-year-old girl was taunted, raped and possibly urinated on during an out-of-control night of high school drinking in Steubenville, Ohio, last summer, dozens of other teens had the chance to intervene as she was carried to at least three different house parties. Instead, some took pictures and posted them online, while others turned away as the victim was dragged or carried, apparently unconscious, from one place to another. As the trial of two high school football players accused of the rape approaches, it’s hard not to wonder about those who simply watched. Why didn’t anyone try to stop the assault, even by anonymously dialing 911?  Why did the bystanders apparently egg on the bullying that escalated into rape, seeing the behavior as something to broadcast rather than conceal? And, perhaps more important, how can the inertia of inaction be broken? Unfortunately, bystander inaction is so common that it has been an active area of social-psychology research since 1964, when Kitty Genovese, a 28-year-old New York woman, was stabbed to death on the street in front of witnesses who failed to get help. The original version of the story — that 38 people saw the crime and did nothing — was later found to be inaccurate, with more people calling the police than was initially reported. But cases like Steubenville incident illustrate that bystander inaction persists, especially among teens and young adults. Research now suggests, however, that mobilizing witnesses is not only possible but could be an effective way to prevent these types of crimes from occurring or escalating. (MORE: Steubenville Authorities Launch Website to Dispel Controversy Around High School Rape Case) Hundreds of colleges now offer programs to encourage intervention. “It’s just emerging,” says Sarah McMahon, associate director of the Center on Violence Against Women and Children at Rutgers University, of these efforts. “There are a number of programs now around the country, and the idea is very appealing. So far, the evaluations show that the programs do have a really positive effect both on willingness to<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=77668&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>More Health Harms for Children Exposed to BPA</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/01/09/more-health-harms-for-children-exposed-to-bpa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2013 15:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Blue</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The latest study shows the compound found in plastic and food packaging can put youngsters at risk for future heart disease. The list of health problems connected to bisphenol-A (BPA) already includes some serious conditions, from hormone abnormalities to asthma, behavioral problems and obesity. Now, new research suggests that the chemical could be harming children&#8217;s kidneys and hearts, independent of the heart issues related to obesity. (MORE: Study Finds Spikes in BPA From Eating Canned Soup) For the latest study, published in Kidney International, researchers at New York University analyzed data from 710 U.S. children and teens, ages 6 to 19, who participated in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey in 2009 and &#8217;10. Based on previous research that uncovered a relationship between BPA and heart problems in adults, the scientists decided to focus on children, who may even be more vulnerable to the effects of chemicals in their environment. The researchers recorded the children&#8217;s BPA levels as measured in their urine and found that kids and adolescents with the highest levels of the compound also had noticeably higher levels of albumin, a protein that builds up when kidneys are damaged, than participants with the lowest levels of BPA. &#8220;This study doesn’t definitively say that BPA causes heart or kidney disease,&#8221; says the study&#8217;s lead author, Dr. Leonardo Trasande, an associate professor of pediatrics and environmental medicine at the New York University School of Medicine. &#8220;The increase in albumin leakage is fairly small, but there are studies in adults that suggest that even that small increment is associated with a higher risk of later heart disease.&#8221; (MORE: BPA Makes Male Mice Less Masculine and Less Appealing to Mates) In adults, low levels of albumin in the urine may signal impaired function of blood-vessel linings, which can increase the risk of hypertension, diabetes or heart disease. Very high levels of albumin may be a sign that the kidneys are struggling; healthy organs generally filter out large molecules like albumin, which is why albumin may also be a powerful predictor of subsequent heart<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=77463&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lasting Legacy of Recessions: Behavior Problems Among Teens</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/01/03/lasting-legacy-of-recessions-behavior-problems-among-teens/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2013 13:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Olivia B. Waxman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Addiction]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fiscal cliff negotiations tested everyone&#8217;s patience, but even young children who don&#8217;t understand national budgets may show signs of strain during such economic insecurity. The latest research shows that financial crises such as recessions can adversely affect infants and young children who grow up in an environment of economic instability. Unemployment and reduced household income levels can cause emotional distress among adults and that anxiety can in turn affect how well parents provide for their children — especially if families have fewer resources to provide for their children&#8217;s education as well as attend to their social and physical well-being. (MORE: Unemployment is Hard on the Health, and The Harm May Add Up) A study published this week in the online edition of JAMA Psychiatry finds that infants born during and after the 1980 and 1981-1982 recessions were more likely to develop behavioral problems in adolescence, such as substance abuse and delinquency, than infants born during periods of low unemployment. The data on adolescents was gathered from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997, backed in part by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and considered to be a representative sample of U.S. adolescents in that year. Led by Dr. Seethalakshmi Ramanathan of the State University of New York&#8217;s Upstate Medical University, researchers collected information from about 8,984 youth born between January 1, 1980, and December 31, 1984, including data on their family, community, criminal and delinquent backgrounds. Two recessions occurred during this time, pushing national unemployment rates from 6.6% to 11.4%. The adolescents, aged 12-16 years, answered questions about a range of behaviors, including past marijuana abuse, smoking, alcohol consumption, illegal drug use, arrests, handgun use, gang affiliation, property destruction, assault-related behavior, and both major and petty theft. Even after the researchers accounted for factors that could influence behavior problems, such as the participants&#8217; sex, ethnicity, mother&#8217;s age at birth, parenting environment, experience with foster care, and siblings who are gang members, the connection between being born during the recession and later behavioral problems remained. Adolescents who were exposed to even<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=77111&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Motivation, Not IQ, Matters Most for Learning New Math Skills</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2012/12/26/motivation-not-iq-matters-most-for-learning-new-math-skills/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Dec 2012 17:15:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Blue</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You don&#8217;t have to be born with math skills; solving problems is a matter of studying and motivation. That may not seem like such a surprise, but it&#8217;s become easy to say &#8216;I just can&#8217;t do math.&#8217; While some element of math achievement may be linked to natural inborn intelligence, when it comes to developing skills during high school, motivation and math study habits are much more important than IQ, according to a new study. &#8220;It’s not how smart we are; it’s how motivated we are and how effectively we study that determines growth in math achievement over time,&#8221; says Kou Murayama, a post-doctoral psychology researcher at University of California Los Angeles and lead author of the study published in the journal Child Development. Murayama and his colleagues studied math achievement among roughly 3,500 public school students living in the German state of Bavariain. The German students were tracked from the fifth grade through the tenth grade and given an annual (grade-appropriate) standardized math exam every year. The kids were also given an IQ test, and asked about their attitudes toward math. In particular, the psychologists were interested in how much the adolescents believed that math achievement was something within their control, and whether the kids were interested in math for its own sake. They also asked the students about study strategies, such as whether they would try to link concepts together when learning new material, or simply try to memorize the steps to typical problems. To their surprise, the researches found that IQ does not predict new learning &#8212; in other words, intelligence as measured by the IQ test does not indicate how likely students are to pick up new concepts or accumulate new skills. While children with higher IQs did have higher test scores from the beginning of the study, how much new material the kids learned over the years was not related to how smart they were, at least not once demographic factors were taken into account. &#8220;Students with high IQ have high math achievement and students<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=76645&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sibling Rivalry: Squabbling May Lead to Depressive Symptoms, Anxiety, Among Teens</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2012/12/21/sibling-rivalry-squabbling-may-lead-to-depressive-symptoms-anxiety-among-teens/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Dec 2012 17:30:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Blue</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anyone with a brother or sister can attest to the inevitability of conflicts during childhood, but frequent clashes may take a toll. Squabbling over two topics in particular, researchers say, may put adolescents at risk for depressive symptoms and anxiety. Psychologists at the University of Missouri reached that conclusion after surveying 145 adolescent sibling pairs over the course of a year. The researchers quizzed the kids on their sibling relationships, and also asked them to answer questionnaires to measure their self-esteem and symptoms of depression and anxiety. They found that kids with high self-esteem at the beginning of the study typically had fewer conflicts with their siblings one year later. But those who reported sibling conflict at the beginning of the study were much more likely to develop new mood problems over the following year. &#8220;There are definitely aspects that are going both ways,&#8221; says researcher Nicole Campione-Barr, an assistant professor of psychological sciences at the University of Missouri, about the possibility that sibling conflict may contribute to future emotional changes, as well as the potential that existing emotional changes may also fuel more squabbles . &#8220;But we believe that there are particular types of conflict that are setting kids up for problems,&#8221; she says. MORE: The Power of Birth Order In particular, Campione-Barr and her colleagues have identified two common themes among the sibling arguments that they studied. Kids who clash with their brothers and sisters about &#8220;equality and fairness issues&#8221; (things like who&#8217;s hogging the bathroom and whose turn it is to do the dishes) appear to be at unusually high risk of depressed mood one year later. Conversely, arguing over &#8220;personal domain conflicts&#8221; (like borrowing items without asking, or hanging around when the other sibling&#8217;s friends are over) is associated with anxiety symptoms and lower self-esteem one year later. The findings are published this week in the journal Child Development. Campione-Barr says the results are somewhat surprising since in previous research, experts had looked at sibling trust and communication, but only found an association between the personal<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=76560&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Teen Victims of Dating Violence Can&#8217;t Break the Cycle</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2012/12/11/why-teen-victims-of-dating-violence-cant-break-the-cycle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2012 15:47:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bonnie Rochman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For teens, dating is about more than just finding a boyfriend or girlfriend. It’s a critical part of adolescent development, but with reports of increased violence occurring within relationships, there is growing concern about how that early experience with dating aggression can impact young-adult relationships. According to the Centers for Disease Control, 9.4% of teens in a recent survey reported being physically abused by a romantic partner in the past 12 months — that included being slapped, hit or intentionally injured. There is also evidence that adolescents who experience violence in early relationships are more vulnerable to being abused again, and indeed the latest study on the issue published in the journal Pediatrics shows that teens who experienced aggression from a romantic partner between the ages of 12 and 18 were up to three times as likely to be revictimized in relationships as young adults. (MORE: How Teen Rejection Can Lead to Chronic Disease Later in Life) Researchers from Cornell University tracked nearly 6,000 kids between the ages of 12 and 18 who were in heterosexual relationships, asking them about their experiences with dating violence. Specifically, they wanted to know if the children had dating partners who had sworn at them, insulted them or treated them disrespectfully in public. They also inquired about actual physical violence — if they had been pushed or shoved or had something thrown at them. Five years later, that same group was questioned about health behaviors — things like suicidal thoughts, self-esteem, sexually risky behavior, depression, smoking and drug use — as well as if they had been the recipient of aggressive behavior by their partner in the past year. That could include being threatened with violence, pushed, shoved, hit, slapped or kicked. The researchers found that 30% of both boys and girls reported being victims of some form of violence in their dating relationships. And those who were treated badly in their younger years were two to three times more likely to get stuck in the same patterns of dating aggression as they got<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=75836&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Teens Grow Up to Be Wealthier Too</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2012/11/23/happy-teens-grow-up-to-be-wealthier-too/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Nov 2012 17:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Belinda Luscombe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Which comes first, happiness or money? Much scholarly head tapping has been devoted to examining whether richer people are happier and if so, how much richer? Nobel prize-winners have even looked into it. But a new study suggests that the question could perhaps be looked at the other way around. Happier teenagers, this study suggests, grow up to be richer adults. The study, which appeared recently in the Proceedings of the National Association of Sciences, looked at thousands of teenagers and found that those who felt better about life as young adults tended to have higher incomes by the time they turned 29. Their happiness was measured on a scale of 1 to 5. Those who were happiest earned an average of $8,000 more than those who were the most despondent. Read More: Study or Sleep? For Better Grades, Teens Should Go to Bed Early The researchers, from University College London and the University of Warwick, used American data from the 10,000 strong survey known as Add Health, and say that their findings held firm even when factoring other variables that also tend to influence both happiness and wealth, such as IQ, education level, self esteem and even height. Very gloomy teens, no matter how tall or smart they were, earned 10% less than their peers, while more exuberant ones earned up to 30% more. When the researchers repeated the study with sibling pairs—youngsters with the same parents and socio-economic backgrounds—the happier ones continued to earn bigger paychecks (which probably didn&#8217;t help the mood of the already more gloomy ones.) It may be that happier teenagers have an easier time getting through school, college and a job interview, partly because they feel better about life generally. It may also be true that happier people find it easier to make friends, who are often the key to homework help or networking. Let&#8217;s face it, Winnie the Pooh is more popular than Eeyore. And Big Bird is more popular than Oscar the Grouch. Read More: A New Neighborhood May Boost Health and<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=74380&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Investigative Report Reveals Some Religious Reform Schools Are Havens for Child Abuse</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2012/11/13/investigative-report-reveals-some-religious-reform-schools-are-havens-for-child-abuse/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2012 21:48:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maia Szalavitz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An investigation reveals extensive child abuse in youth programs in Florida. They&#8217;re advertised as “boarding schools” or “Christian” children&#8217;s homes in Florida, but a yearlong investigation published in the Tampa Bay Times reveals lax oversight on dozens of youth programs, some of which had been shut down for abuse in other states and have continued to operate for decades. In Florida, such unlicensed religious homes can operate outside state child-protection laws thanks to an exemption that protects religious practices. Some are structured more like military camps, while other boarding-school programs emphasize the “emotional growth” aspect of their mission, claiming to help teens with everything from defiance to depression to drug problems. Hundreds of students register at these schools each year, enrolled by desperate parents eager to pay $20,000 or more in tuition to put their children back on the &#8220;right&#8221; path — away from drugs, crime and even homosexuality. The religious exemption protects the programs from inspections by the state&#8217;s department of children and families, which means students can be imprisoned or shackled and, unlike with licensed youth programs, can be denied contact with their parents and prevented from accessing child-abuse hotlines. Regulatory authority over these religious programs lies almost entirely in the hands of the Florida Association of Christian Child Caring Agencies (FACCA). And these programs flourish in other states as well, since no national regulations exist to oversee such facilities for teens. In the opening story of the Tampa Bay Times’ three-part investigation, reporters recount the experience of a former Christian-military-school attendee named Samson Lehman: They shaved him bald that first morning in 2008, put him in an orange jumpsuit and made him exercise past dark. Through the night, as he slept on the floor, they forced him awake for more. The sun had not yet risen over the Christian military home when Samson Lehman collapsed for the sixth time. Still, he said, they made him run. The screaming, the endless exercise, it was all in the name of God, a necessary step at the Gateway Christian Military Academy<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=73735&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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