This guest blog is written by Etienne Melcher with the Food Research and Action Center. This blog is part of our week-long celebration for National School Breakfast Week. Growing up, I remember my mot...
By Dolly Lambdin, Ed.D. (Clinical Professor in the Department of Kinesiology & Health Education at the University of Texas at Austin and President of SHAPE America) The pressure to excel is risin...
“Gratitude is a vaccine, an antitoxin, and an antiseptic.” — John Henry Jowett As many of us gather around tables across the country to celebrate Thanksgiving this week, we wanted to take a few minute...
Ebola is a scary disease. I am a public health geek so I have had an awareness of this disease for some time. It always struck me as a fascinatingly dreadful disease with nasty symptoms and disease co...
NEAHIN is all about wellness, so we couldn’t think of a better raffle prize to offer at the 2014 NEA Expo than the Pulse O2 Personal Fitness Tracker! Tracking calories, activity, heart and pulse rate ...
Teen birth rates are declining in the US. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 329,797 babies were born to teen girls aged 15–19 years in 2011, which is an 8% drop from 2010. ...
Armed with my best booth smile, comfortable shoes and 1,000 lip balms to give away, I set out for Denver to get caught up in the pre- Representative Assembly (RA) energy I had been hearing about since...
Here’s a staggering statistic: Today, 16 million children live in families that receive food stamps — that’s one in five children. In 2015, post-recession America. It’s hard to wrap ...
At the Center for Green Schools, we know that educators are some of the busiest people on the planet and that back-to-school time is no exception to this rule. But we also know that educators care pas...
National Preparedness Month is September. The theme for 2014 is “Be Disaster Aware, Take Action to Prepare.” This is an opportunity to consider what simple, specific actions individuals, families and...