Weekly Health Digest: Intense Walking, Egg Freezing, and Natural Wine
Weekly Health Digest from the @EmoryCSHH News team: the health benefits of intense walking, the reality of freezing your eggs, and the “natural” wine phenomena
Health Beyond the Blog: A Dive into Autism
The 2022 South Korean TV show “Extraordinary Attorney Woo Young Woo” follows a young lawyer with autism spectrum disorder and shows how she thrives amidst stigma.
Thank You, Emory!
A core principle of human health is the idea that health is not merely the absence of disease. Rather, health is a dynamic state of physical, emotional, mental, social, and spiritual well-being.
Health Beyond the Blog: The Reality of Living Organically
The 2018 documentary"The Biggest Little Farm" reveals the challenges and rewards of getting as close as possible to the process of producing food, showing the efforts of one family to live and eat naturally.
Weekly Health Digest: Avoiding Gym Injuries, the Effects of Sitting, and the New Cost of FDA Approval
Weekly Health Digest from the @EmoryCSHH News team: how to avoid gym injuries, the detrimental health effects of sitting, and are pharmaceutical companies buying FDA approval via user fees?
Weekly Health Digest: Caregiving, Depression, and Global Health Efforts
New in Weekly Health Digest: the economic impact of family caregiving, distinguishing depression from burnout, and renewing efforts to fund global health.
Fostering Community Through Health Coaching
Tasked with developing a supplemental group coaching session to help current and former DPP participants maintain their health, I chose to focus my supplemental sessions on “slip-ups”, which was a term discussed during the first part of the DPP core curriculum.
Weekly Health Digest: Heart Disease, Hail Storms, and COVID’s Effect on Native Americans
New in Weekly Health Digest: Streamlining heart disease medication regimens, disproportionate effects of Covid on indigenous communities' life expectancy, and as the size of hailstones grows, scientists asks citizens for help.
Health Education is Health Empowerment: Reflections from a Two-Time DPP Health Coach
When I practiced my sessions with my peers, the biggest barrier to physical activity was time, so I was somewhat blindsided when a participant last year informed me they were retired and had all the time in the world.
Making a Case for Early Childhood Health Education
The way health education is approached when we are younger sets the stage for how we execute healthy habits later in life, which is why it’s so important to expose children to various health topics in school.