Media Relations
Wednesday,
July 11,
2007
School of Physical Education and Tourism Management
IU Health & Wellness for December has a holiday theme, with tips about indoor air quality, the importance of family meals, eating healthy on the go, online shopping safety, holiday travel and creative gifts for children.
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Indiana University experts in tourism, burns and recreation discuss sports tourism, firework safety and productive leisure time for kids during the summer.
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More than 30 researchers from Indiana University participated in the annual meeting of the American College of Sports Medicine in Baltimore, June 2-5. Studies in this tip sheet discuss hip exercises that reduce or eliminate common knee pain in female runners, dwellings' interiors and inhabitants' physical activity levels, breathing exercises that might make more oxygen available for other muscles during endurance sports, doctors prescribing physical activity, and the effect -- or lack of effect -- compression clothes have on performance.
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Indiana University experts in epidemiology, sports medicine and travel discuss in February's IU Health & Wellness the peanut recall, aging and exercise and travel planning when money is tight.
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This media tipsheet provides a sample of some of the studies Indiana University researchers are taking to the American College of Sports Medicine's annual conference in Indianapolis May 28-31. Topics include IDing risks for life-threatening falls, college freshmen and heart disease, mood and physical activity, health challenges posed by sedentary jobs and weight loss benefits from contacts with health care professionals.
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This back-to-school tipsheet discusses the pitfalls of online courses, parental tools for sharing important information with caregivers about children with disabilities, the future of college rankings, preparing young children for school, parental tips for monitoring kids' online activities, the challenges of running afterschool programs in poorer neighborhoods, and an argument for allowing children to be creative on the internet.
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