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Dialing for Disorders: Let’s Move To Prevent Them By July 12!

June 29, 2010 by Amy Jussel 3 Comments

June 29, 2010 As a kids' health advocate (inside and out) I’ve been covering the "HUGE" conversation pertaining to media’s responsibility and accountability in how the portrayal of being overweight in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Emerging trends & STEM, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Nutrition & Wellness, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth Tagged With: Alcee Hastings, Athlete-Models, body dissatisfaction, bullying, CDC, champions for change, childhood obesity, children, confidence, congressional hearings, Counter-marketing, Dare to compare, dieting, Eating Disorders Coalition, eating-disorders, ED, EDC, Fat camp, fat is fiscal, fat kids, Female-Athletes, fitness, game plan, girls-self-worth, gymnastics, holistic health, Huge, Jess Weiner, junk-food, Kids health, Let's Move, Make it or break it, network for healthier california, Nikky Blonsky, nutrition, obesity, obesity prevention, P.E., physical education, physical fitness, physical fitness kids, portion distortion, Rebecca Scritchfield, social stigma, teens, The Secret Life of the American Teenager, Verb, weight, weight loss, wellness, Yale's Rudd Center

Using Media to Inspire All Ages: Lia Neal to Dara Torres

July 7, 2008 by Amy Jussel 6 Comments

Aug. 12, 2016 Friday Flashback as we add fresh 2016 context to this fabulous photo of two historic moments: Simone Manuel's gold medal win as the first African-American woman to win an individual … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Emerging trends & STEM, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Nutrition & Wellness, People Shaping Youth, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Product Placement, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth, Stereotypes & Diversity Tagged With: Advice-for-teen-swimmers, ageism, Alexa Moreno, athlete-drug-use, Athlete-Models, Beijing-Olympics, body shaming, Children-swimming, Dara-Torres, Female-Athletes, Fu Yuahui, Inspiring-Teens, Lia-Neal, media-literacy, Michael-Phelps, Natalie-Coughlin, neuroscience, Olympic-Games-2008, Olympics 2016, preteens, record-breaking-olympians, self-worth, Simone Manuel, Speedo-Fastskin-LZR-Racer, Swimmers, US-Anti-Doping-Agency, USA-swimming, Womens-Sports-Foundation, Youth-sports