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...they deal daily with the ills associated with childhood obesity and work to repair the damage that's been done. And perhaps most important, teachers, mentors and public role models are fighting it as they help kids navigate a culture that fosters fat but idealizes thin and as they teach them that what truly counts is getting themselves as fit as their body type and genes allow - and then loving that body no matter what...
...with what he calls "cultural competency training": lessons designed to help doctors recognize when patients may not share the same assumed health conditions, or when patients may face constraints that make the standard dietary and exercise guidance tougher to follow. Sequist emphasizes that these lessons are not aiming to teach doctors "what a black patient thinks," but to get doctors to find out what their patients actually do think. Results of the trial won't be available until later this year. But, if it works, it could be a huge boon to treatment for all kinds of chronic conditions...
...marital advice comes as a bonus in the class Dubin and former Air Force special-ops commando Darryl Wooten teach each month called Boot Camp for New Dads. The training program, which is offered in 43 states as well as in Britain and Australia, combines the basics of parenting preparation--what to expect during labor, how to change a diaper--with male-bonding to help ease the often overlooked stresses of fathers-to-be. At a time when enrollment in childbirth classes has fallen from 70% of first timers in 2002 to 56% in 2006--with the drop...
...Even service-oriented organizations recognize the appeal of this model to the risk-minimizing student that populates Harvard. Teach for America (TFA) is a case in point. Well-marketed to an extreme, TFA overcomes risk-aversion by virtue of its close ties to the corporate world; do some good teaching poor kids for a few years, and your financial reward will still be waiting for you, the hint seems to be. It's perhaps no coincidence that TFA is one of the most successful service recruiters Harvard has ever seen. But then again, this may not be surprising?...
...What ought to be a building that serves undergraduates, at least indirectly, could become dominated by the Faculty, many of whose members have regrettably proved themselves to be less than inclined to give a hoot about the undergraduates they are occasionally required to teach...