Diet, physical activity, whether they use food to respond to stress, physiologic and genetic make-up, age, and health status are some of the factors that affect teenagers’ weight.
Terry Ochoa, Registered Dietitian with Baptist Health South Florida, says age is …
Creating a good relationship between the therapist and the teenager is necessary to understand a possible teen depression and how to help overcome it.
Finding what’s going on is possible when the therapist asks parents and teens in order to …
Teenagers are more susceptible to irritability, which can be associated with depression and bad mood. As a result, they tend to be isolated, are not communicative and have long periods of sadness.
Psycotherapist Graciela Jimenez explains the differences between irritability, …
One of the most important concerns of social media is how much teens are getting a lot of their self-worth from apps, because they are paying attention to how many followers, responses, friends or likes they have and compare them …
The best advice Dr. Francisco Medina, Director of Pediatric Emergency Services and Chief of Pediatrics at Homestead Hospital, can give parents is that they be aware of what their children are doing and, if it’s necessary help them quickly.
“Watch …
Spondylolisthesis in young athletes can be developed into two ways: kids who were born with a missing pars interarticularis and athletes who practice a lot baseball, golf and gymnastic. Dr. Georgiy Brusovanik, Spine Surgeon with Baptist Health South Florida, explains …
Some of the misconducts of Florida teens are having sex before age 13, not eating vegetables, not going to school, not being physically active for at least a day per week, and watching more than 3 hours of TV daily.…
Dr. Paula Levine, Psychologist and Founding Director of the Miami Counseling Resource Center, explains disordered eating is when you, for example, do not have breakfast to save calories until lunch or dinner, even though nutritionists say it is good to …
