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Saturday, March 3, 2007

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IU Health & Wellness: The holiday issue

Indiana University experts offer holiday-themed tips involving fear and drastic change, H1N1 and familiar greetings, staying active and thrifty gift-giving in the October issue of IU Health and Wellness.   Full Story >>

'Sexploration at IU' to begin Monday in Bloomington

Sexploration at IU, the second annual weeklong series of fun, interactive sex positive events offering Indiana University students information about sexuality related issues, begins today (Monday, Oct. 26) on the Bloomington campus.   Full Story >>

Upton Sinclair satirized, promoted healthful living

Literary giant Upton Sinclair, best known for his social and economic commentary, is introduced as a Progressive Era health reformer in Unseen Upton Sinclair, Nine Unpublished Stories, Essays and Other Works, edited by Indiana University health historian Ruth Clifford Engs.   Full Story >>

IU Health & Wellness

IU Health and Wellness for September discusses research that looks at how living conditions impact reproductive health and how attitudes about female genitals can impact sexuality and sexual health. It also provides workout tips for runners driven indoors by allergies or weather.   Full Story >>

Youth drug use in Indiana: Annual survey finds overall drop, slight marijuana use increase

Drug use by Indiana sixth through 12th graders continues to decline but findings from the 19th Annual Survey of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drug Use by Indiana Children and Adolescents, conducted by the Indiana Prevention Resource Center at Indiana University Bloomington and funded by the Indiana Family and Social Services Administration's Division of Mental Health and Addiction, also pointed to an increase in marijuana use.   Full Story >>

IU obesity experts comment on IOM childhood obesity report

Lloyd Kolbe and Susan Middlestadt, obesity and public health experts in Indiana University Bloomington's School of Health, Physical Education and Recreation, comment on a national report, which they say outlines a new era of combating obesity, particularly among American children.   Full Story >>



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