GENETIC ALLIANCE BY ADRIANNA EVANS The arrival of the New Year brings with it resolutions of all kinds; people everywhere promise to make the coming year better than the last. Among these resolutions are often promises to be kind, to spend more time with family, to go to the gym – and of course, to stick to a healthy diet. These days, the promise to stick to a diet often involves using websites, social media, […]
The Society of Behavioral Medicine and the American College of Sports Medicine encourage legislation and policies for Medicare, Medicaid, and private insurers to reimburse exercise programming for people with serious mental illness treated in community mental health programs. Sarah Pratt, PhD, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth; Gerald Jerome, PhD, Towson University; Kristin Schneider, PhD, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine & Science; Lynette Craft, PhD, and Mark Stoutenberg, PhD, MSPH, American College of Sports Medicine; […]
BY H. BARRY WALDMAN DDS, MPH, PHD, RICK RADER, MD, STEVEN P. PERLMAN DDS, MSCD, DHL (HON) If you have tears, prepare to shed them now… Look! In this place ran Cassius’ dagger through: See what a rent the envious Casca made: Through this the well-beloved Brutus stabb’d… Judge O you gods, how dearly Caesar loved him! This was the most unkindest cut of all.” 1 (Mark Anthony in Julius Caesar – via Shakespeare & […]
BY EMILY JOHNSON If you look at the pictures of my brother and me on my first day of kindergarten, and my first day of medical school, they look remarkably similar. Despite the 16 years separating the two, our hairstyles have only changed minimally. However, one of the biggest similarities of these two occasions was my personal naivety. In both cases, I was somewhat unprepared for the way my brother and others with intellectual disabilities […]
THE FITNESS PRIORITY BY KRISTIN MCNEALUS, PT, DPT There are a number of factors contributing to unhealthy habits in children with special needs, namely behavioral issues, medications, and mobility limitations. Childhood obesity is on the rise in our country, and the rate of obesity among children with special needs is even steeper than that of other children. There are a number of studies looking at these statistics, and although the exact numbers differ, here are […]
