Teen health program fights obesity, depression

By Anne Harding NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A skills-building program offered as part of high school health classes may help prevent obesity, depression and drinking among teenagers, a new study suggests. "Our hope is that schools after seeing these outcomes will say, ‘Hey, we want to implement this in our curriculum,'" Bernadette Melnyk, from The Ohio State University in Columbus, told Reuters Health. "We're talking about 15 hours in a high schooler's education that can have some pretty profound positive (outcomes). ...



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