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healthGAMERS Part Two: Interview With Melanie Lazarus, MPH

June 30, 2009 by Amy Jussel 6 Comments

June 30, 2009 Today in my Twitter feed (yes, I finally joined, see sidebar badge!) I immediately benefited from the 'following' phenom to shortcut my research time when a new friend/follower in Australia, Tania Andrusiak, pointed to today’s Scientific American story called “Take two video games and call me in the morning” ---('ReTweet' visual at left) Guess it's time for … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Emerging trends & STEM, Interactive Games, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Nutrition & Wellness, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: Amy-Jussel, Andre Blackman, Archimage, best practices, brain games, brain plasticity, CDC, exergaming, fitness, food, future, G-Force, game addicition, gamers, games for health, gaming, Gaming4Health, health, Health 2.0, health forums, healthcare, healthGAMERS, healthy media, humana, IFF, innovation, Kids, Melanie Lazarus, mHealth, Monster's Blog, NIH, online community, persuasive games, Playnormous, prescribing games, public health, rehabilitation, RezEd.org, Scientific American, screen time, serious-games, take two video games and call me in the morning, Tania Andrusiak, technology, video games, Virtual-Worlds

Diagnosis Endometriosis: What to Know As Preteens Grow

March 31, 2009 by Amy Jussel 21 Comments

Mar. 31, 2009 Today I was planning on posting part two in my series on the Focus on Youth Sex::Tech Conference resources featuring health education tools, widgets, sex ed primers and helpful digital data available to give teens and parents a comprehensive snapshot of ‘what’s out there’ in a useful form rather than the drama-rama ‘oopsie’ moments permeating the ‘preggers … [Read more...]

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Get Out of Your Own Life! Environmental Influence on Kids

March 30, 2009 by Amy Jussel 9 Comments

Mar. 30, 2009 Mea culpa for the unannounced vanishing act, but I’ve been out of town interviewing teens in a different ‘pocket’ of the greater Bay Area, exploring how environmental influences (peers, nature, geography) shift the volume and decibel level of media intake among kids and where we might learn some 'best practices' to leapfrog into a healthier place for the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, Counter-marketing, EcoKids-Environment, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Nutrition & Wellness, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth, Stereotypes & Diversity Tagged With: 12 Going on 29, be yourself, beach volleyball, branding, Buckminster Fuller, CDC, consumption, defiance, Dr. Jessica Illuzzi, Dr. Peter Scheidt, Early-Sexualization, Earth Hour, eco, EcoSentience, environmental influence, Green-Teens, health, holistic, Kids, National Children's Study, NCLI, NCS, NextNow Collaboratory, NIH, organic, Peer pressure, Pop-Culture, preteen, Santa Cruz, self-worth, teenagers, well-being, world cafe